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Researchers assessed the stability of SAT scores by repeatedly giving the test to the same group of individuals over a 6-year period.The procedure used in this research best illustrates


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Condorcet Voting Paradox

A situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (i.e., not transitive), even if the individual preferences of voters are not.

Transitivity

In decision theory, the principle that if preference A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then A is greater than C.

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

A theorem that demonstrates the impossibility of devising a social welfare function that satisfies all of a specified set of reasonable conditions simultaneously.

Majority Rule

A decision-making rule in which policies or choices are decided based on the preference of the majority of participants.

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