Question

True or false: The majority rule can fail to produce a single preferred outcome when there are more than two choices.

Short answer

The statement is true.

Step-by-step solution

Step 1. Definition

A decision rule that chooses alternatives with majority or more than half the votes is referred to as majority rule.

Step 2. Explanation

Let there are four choices W, X, Y, Z. Now let us say that you preferred W to X and X to Y and Y to Z and lastly Z to A. so what you are going to choose, like you choose W because W is preferred to X, and you choose X as X is preferred to Y, and so on. So, this is going to be a circular and you choose what you prefer between the two givens. So, a single preferred outcome cannot be produced by majority rule when there are more than two choices.