There are three houses on a particular street. The table below shows the preferences of the three households regarding the number of street lights they want to be installed.

-Refer to the table above. This is an example of the________.

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There are three houses on a particular street. The table below shows the preferences of the three households regarding the number of street lights they want to be installed.
 
-Refer to the table above. This is an example of the________.

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The Condorcet Paradox occurs in voting when collective preferences can be cyclic (i.e., not transitive), even if the individual preferences within the voting population are transitive. This paradox illustrates a situation where no clear winner can be determined due to the cyclical nature of group preferences, which is not explicitly described but implied by the question's context.

There Are Three Houses on a Particular Street