Re:Arrow's impossibility theorem
by mkehrt on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @08:05PM
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In college I was part of a club that had an elaborate election procedure for officers. I'm pretty sure it violates Arrow's Theorem, but it was also nonterminating!
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That sounds very interesting! How did your nonterminating election procedure work?
Oh, god. I don't remember the details, but it involved crossing off the bottom third of candidates every round until there was only one left. But somehow, this didn't always get rid of everyone, and you could get stuck in a state where there was no bottom third.