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A comment on Arrow's impossibility theorem. Parent comment

Re:Arrow's impossibility theorem by gweinberg on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @10:18PM (#9657075)
No, of course not. It's really easy to come up with a system that always comes up with "good" results if you rule out "screwy" voter preferences, with a sufficiently restrictive value of "screwy".
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Re:Arrow's impossibility theorem by SilasX on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @10:28PM (#9657107)
"Screwy" in this context means the sort of intransitive situations referred to in the parent of my last comment.
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