Short communication: An impossibility theorem for indicators aggregation

  • Authors:

  • Gheorghe Paun

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • Fuzzy Sets and Systems
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

Using the fuzzy set theory we prove that there is no indicator, at the same time aggregated and sensitive, anticatastrophic and noncompensatory. Such a result theoretically justifies the weaknesses of certain indicators used at present as well as the noncomparability of certain social issues such as the quality of life, etc.