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The Robust Beauty of Majority Rules in Group Decisions
2005
Psychological review
How should groups make decisions? The authors provide an original evaluation of 9 group decision rules based on their adaptive success in a simulated test bed environment. When the adaptive success standard is applied, the majority and plurality rules fare quite well, performing at levels comparable to much more resource-demanding rules such as an individual judgment averaging rule. The plurality rule matches the computationally demanding Condorcet majority winner that is standard in
doi:10.1037/0033-295x.112.2.494
pmid:15783295
fatcat:c452ub6mlbc2hbhrx6n6e2f2fa