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Thirteen theorems in search of the truth
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The authors review recent work on the accuracy of group judgmental processes as a function of the competences (judgmental accuracies) of individual group members, the group decision procedure, and the group size.Abstract:
We review recent work on the accuracy of group judgmental processes as a function of (a) the competences (judgmental accuracies) of individual group members, (b) the group decision procedure, and (c) group size. This work on individual competence and group accuracy represents an important contribution to democratic theory and a useful complement to the usual emphasis in the social choice literature on individual preference and preference aggregation mechanisms. The work reported on is rooted in a tradition which goes back to scholars such as Condorcet, Poisson, and Bayes.read more
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Culture as Consensus: A Theory of Culture and Informant Accuracy
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Application of majority voting to pattern recognition: an analysis of its behavior and performance
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Condorcet's theory of voting
TL;DR: Condorcet resolut ce probleme en utilisant une forme d'estimation par le maximum de vraisemblance, a procedure qu'il en a tiree peut aussi etre justifiee a partir d'une perspective axiomatique moderne as mentioned in this paper.
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Condorcet's theory of voting
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Epistemic democracy : generalizing the Condorcet jury theorem
Christian List,Robert E. Goodin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that given suitably systematic, however slight, deviations from an impartial culture situation, the probability of a cycle converges either to zero (more typically) or to one (less typically) as the number of individuals increases.
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TL;DR: In this article, a unified, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of both statistical and descriptive methods for pattern recognition is provided, including Bayesian decision theory, supervised and unsupervised learning, nonparametric techniques, discriminant analysis, clustering, preprosessing of pictorial data, spatial filtering, shape description techniques, perspective transformations, projective invariants, linguistic procedures, and artificial intelligence techniques for scene analysis.
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The theory of committees and elections
TL;DR: In this paper, Dodgson's Third Pamphlet 'A Method...' (1876) was used to discuss the Elasticity of Committee Decisions with an Altering Size of Majority.
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Essai Sur L'Application de L'Analyse a la Probabilite Des Decisions Rendues a la Pluralite Des Voix
TL;DR: Condorcet's paradox (the non-transitivity of majority preferences) is seen as the direct ancestor of Arrow's paradox as discussed by the authors, and it was rediscovered as a foundational work in the theory of voting and societal preferences.