Application of Voting Geometry to Multialternative Choice
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چکیده
This paper presents an application of voting geometry to individual decision making. We demonstrate that a number of decision anomalies can arise as a natural consequence of the aggregation of preferences of different neural systems. We present a proof of existence of a set of voting procedures that can account for the attraction effect, the similarity effect and the compromise effect, and provide an example of one such procedure in the form of a modified Borda count. The result is an original closed form computational model of multialternative choice.
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