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On Legal Interpretations of the Condorcet Jury Theorem

dc.contributor.authorEdelman, Paul H.
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-18T15:37:28Z
dc.date.available2015-02-18T15:37:28Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.identifier.citation31 J. Legal Stud. 327 (2002)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/6900
dc.descriptionarticle published in law journalen_US
dc.description.abstractThere has been a spate of interest in the application of the Condorcet Jury Theorem to issues in the law. This theorem holds that a majority vote among a suitably large body of voters, all of whom are more likely than not to vote correctly, will almost surely result in the correct outcome. Its uses have ranged from estimating the correct size of juries to justifying the voting of creditors in Chapter 11 reorganizations. While the mathematics is unassailable, the legal interpretation of the conclusion is dependent on the model of probability one uses when invoking the assumption that the voters are "more likely than not to vote correctly." In this paper, I show how different probabilistic models lead to different interpretations of the results. Establishing which is the appropriate model has normative implications as well. This analysis is then employed in critiquing the work of Saul Levmore and of Lewis Kornhauser and Lawrence Sager.en_US
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dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Legal Studiesen_US
dc.subject.lcshDecision making -- Mathematical modelsen_US
dc.titleOn Legal Interpretations of the Condorcet Jury Theoremen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.ssrn-urihttp://ssrn.com/abstract=302186


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