Opinion pooling on general agendas
Dietrich, F. & List, C.
(2008).
Opinion pooling on general agendas.
Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science.
How can different individuals’ probability assignments to some events be aggregated into a collective probability assignment? Although there are several classic results on this problem, they all assume that the ‘agenda’of relevant events forms a -algebra, an overly demanding assumption for many practical applications. We drop this assumption and explore probabilistic opinion pooling on general agendas. Our main theorems characterize linear pooling and neutral pooling for large classes of agendas, with standard results as special cases.
| Item Type | Working paper |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2008 Franz Dietrich and Christian List |
| Departments |
LSE > Academic Departments > Government LSE > Academic Departments > Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method LSE > Research Centres > Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences (CPNSS) |
| Date Deposited | 29 Jul 2008 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/20127 |
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1627-800X