Duncan Black (1948) showed that if the number of voters is odd, and their preference profile is single peaked, pairwise majority decision always delivers up an ordering.[11] Furthermore, he showed, the maximum of this ordering is the bliss point of the median voter—the voter whose bliss point has, on the common ordering, as many voters’ bliss points to one side as it has to the other. In the example this is Baby bear, and warm porridge is the collective maximum.  This example illustrates the way in which single peakedness can facilitate compromise.