Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Seat belts (please move exclusively to net.auto) Message-ID: <1560043@acf4.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-May-85 19:19:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1560043 Posted: Sat May 4 19:19:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 7-May-85 20:43:49 EDT References: <317@rtech.ARPA> Organization: New York University Lines: 12 >herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) / 9:56 am May 1, 1985 */ >a few years back, the Mathematical Games column of Scientific American >did a little game theory analysis of the system of plain majority votes >in decisions. i forget the date, but in essence, it concluded that >majority votes were fine if you were one of the majority, but poorly >represented any minorities. > >Herb Chong... Why in the world did this require "game theory analysis?"