Opinion pooling on general agendas


Συγγραφέας: Franz Dietrich, Christian List


Franz Dietrich, Christian List: Opinion pooling on general agendas (pdf, 37 pages)
How can di¤erent 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.