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A jury and two valid options are given. Each agent of the jury picks exactly one of these options. The option with the most votes will be chosen by the jury. In the N-couple model of Althöfer and Thiele (Theory and Decision 81:1–15, 2016), the jury consisted of 2N agents. These agents form N independent couples, with dependencies within the couples. The authors assumed that the agents who form a couple have the same competence level. In this note, we relax this assumption by allowing different competence levels within the couples. We show that the theoretical results of Althöfer and Thiele remain valid under this relaxation.
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The author wants to thank an anonymous referee for his or her helpful comments. Another thanks goes to Ingo Althöfer for his proofreading and helpful discussions.
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Thiele, R. A note on the Condorcet jury theorem for couples. Theory Decis 83, 355–364 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-017-9602-3
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