Two of the Most Important Measures of Optical Disc Drive

question 48

True/False

Two of the most important measures of optical disc drive performance are sustained data-transfer rate and longest access time.

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Definitions:

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

A theory indicating it is impossible to formulate a social preference ordering that satisfies all of a specific set of reasonable criteria when voters have three or more options.

Pairwise Majority Voting

A voting system in which each option is compared head-to-head with every other option, with the option winning the most direct comparisons being considered the overall winner.

Condorcet Paradox

A situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (not transitive) despite the transitive preferences of individual voters.

Majority Rule

A decision-making principle where the preferences or decisions supported by more than half of the participants are adopted.