• Democracy without Enlightenment: A Jury Theorem for Evaluative Voting 

      Morreau, Michael (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-08)
      Say a jury is going to decide who wins a competition. First, each member evaluates all the competitors by grading them; then, for each competitor, a collective grade is derived from all the judgments of all the members; finally, the jury chooses as the winner the competitor with the highest collective grade. This is <i>collective grading</i>. The grades that are used might typically be numerical ...
    • Safety in numbers: how social choice theory can inform avalanche risk management 

      Ebert, Philip; Morreau, Michael (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-21)
      Avalanche studies have undergone a transition in recent years. Early research focused mainly on environmental factors. More recently, attention has turned to human factors in decision making, such as behavioural and cognitive biases. This article adds a social component to this human turn in avalanche studies. It identifies lessons for decision making by groups of skiers from the perspective of ...