When an Eyewitness Is Really Confident About What He or She

question 6

Multiple Choice

When an eyewitness is really confident about what he or she saw, this confidence:

• A) has no effect on jurors.
• B) is strongly correlated with accuracy.
• C) is likely to increase over time.
• D) has no effect on judges.

Comprehend Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and its significance in social choice theory.

Analyze the Median Voter Theorem and its application in predicting outcomes of elections and decision-making scenarios.

Understand the properties of a "perfect" voting system as proposed by Kenneth Arrow and identify voting systems that fail to meet these criteria.

Evaluate the consequences of the Condorcet Paradox in voting and social choice contexts.

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