TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elkin,Lee
AU  - Pettigrew,Richard
TI  - Opinion pooling
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in decision theory and philosophy,
SN  - 9781009315203 (ebook)
AV  - BD184 .E65 2024
U1  - 170 23/eng/20240808
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Decision-making
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Opinion (Philosophy)
KW  - Reasoning
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jan 2025); Philosophical motivations -- Desirable features of pooling strategies -- Opinion pooling strategies -- Promoting group epistemic rationality -- Promoting group practical rationality -- Relaxing some constraints; Open Access
N2  - Disagreement is a common feature of a social world. For various reasons, however, we sometimes need to resolve a disagreement into a single set of opinions. This can be achieved by pooling the opinions of individuals that make up the group. In this Element, we provide an opinionated survey on some ways of pooling opinions: linear pooling, multiplicative pooling (including geometric), and pooling through imprecise probabilities. While we give significant attention to the axiomatic approach in evaluating pooling strategies, we also evaluate them in terms of the epistemic and practical goals they might meet. In doing so, we connect opinion pooling to some philosophical problems in social epistemology and the philosophy of action, illuminating different perspectives one might take when figuring out how to pool opinions for a given purpose. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009315203
ER  -