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Condorcet's theory of voting

H. P. Young (1990)

Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines

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Condorcet believed that the purpose of voting is to make a choice that is “best” for society. According to his view, there is one choice that is objectively best, another that is second-best, and so forth. Unfortunately, voters sometimes make mistakes ; they misperceive what is best. In designing a voting rule, therefore, the objective should be to choose the alternative that is most likely to be best. Condorcet solved this problem using a form of maximum likelihood estimation. The procedure...

Grokking Condorcet's 1785 Essai.

Urken, Arnold B. (2008)

Journal Électronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique [electronic only]

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Statistical and decision theoretic aspects of examination assessment.

Simon French (1989)

Trabajos de Estadística

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At a recent conference in Innsbruck, held in memory of Bruno De Finetti, attention focused on one of his aphorisms: analysts should think about things. This paper seeks to do precisely that in the context of public examinations in England and Wales. It attempts to think about those quantitative things that are done to marks in the process of assessing candidate scripts. Public examinations are central to our education system: hundreds of thousands of candidates enter them every year....

Comments to Prof. French's article (Vol. 4, nr. 1, 1989 of ).

D. D. Biggins, C. M. Forrest, P. Jackson, R. M. Loynes, James T. Townsend, Simon French (1990)

Trabajos de Estadística

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The comments made by various authors to Prof. French's article Statistical and decision theoretic aspects of examination assessment (Trabajos de Estadística, vol. 4, nr. 1, 1989) were not included in the published paper. In order to complete the article, such comments are published now and the author's answer to them is printed again.

Characterizing incommensurability on the basis of a contextual theory of language

Léna Soler (2004)

Philosophia Scientiae

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In this article I present, first, a criticism of certain aspects of the way Martin Carrier characterizes semantic incommensurability on the basis of a contextual theory of language. Subsequently I introduce some distinctions and put forward some proposals in order to pursue the same project. It will be argued that two different conceptions of the notion “conditions of applications” and, correlatively, two different meanings of the clause “preservations of the inferential relations”,...