Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
Notice that the requirement of Arrow that "social preferences be insensitive to variations in the intensity of preferences" was preposterous. Arrow apparently insisted on this because he believed that it was impossible to come up with any objective measure of preference intensity; however, that was simply his opinion and certainly isn't true where there is a cost to voting.
Arrow doesn't impose that requirement; that's not what IIA says.
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