Showing posts with label Arrow's Theorem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arrow's Theorem. Show all posts

Friday, May 06, 2011

Arrow's impossibility theorem


A little maths to lighten the gloom.

How strange that the Tories and Labour NOs did not quote Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, which proves mathematically that no voting system can meet three criteria of fairness (see extract above).

No, I don't understand it either.