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Normative ratings were also obtained from children ages 7–9 years, 10-12, and 13-14. The rating procedure for children was mildly adapted; among other modifications, children were tested in classrooms, given instructions in a more child-friendly language, and they were allotted 20 seconds to rate each picture instead of 15.
In the fields of mechanism design and social choice theory, Gibbard's theorem is a result proven by philosopher Allan Gibbard in 1973. [1] It states that for any deterministic process of collective decision, at least one of the following three properties must hold: The process is dictatorial, i.e. there is a single voter whose vote chooses the ...
The revelation principle shows that, while Gibbard's theorem proves it is impossible to design a system that will always be fully invulnerable to strategy (if we do not know how players will behave), it is possible to design a system that encourages honesty given a solution concept (if the corresponding equilibrium is unique). [3] [4]
Allan Fletcher Gibbard (born 1942) is the Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. [1] Gibbard has made major contributions to contemporary ethical theory, in particular metaethics, where he has developed a contemporary version of non-cognitivism.
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The Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem is a theorem in social choice theory.It was first conjectured by the philosopher Michael Dummett and the mathematician Robin Farquharson in 1961 [1] and then proved independently by the philosopher Allan Gibbard in 1973 [2] and economist Mark Satterthwaite in 1975. [3]
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