So even though, at the moment of decision, you cannot change what you actually prefer, those preferences are themselves cultivated by other choices you have made.
However, empirical, health systems research that has actually investigated preferences for the trade off, thereby identifying the actual balanced goal of a health system, is relatively unusual, and there is certainly no credible corpus of work informing this area.
"Another possible answer is that despite all statements about winning being everything, they actually have preferences not just about the outcome of the game, but about how they get there.
The spatial precision of this approach was in the range of 100 μm and experiments in cat primary visual cortex revealed a close correlation between the desired and the actually recorded orientation preferences of the targeted columns.
For Vélez, it is not only a return to her roots, it's actually a preference.
We have previously verified that there is actually no preference for S/T at the +4 position (Holt et al., 2007 ).
Nonetheless, in terms of physiological function, the 'DSPs' may actually show preference for either pTyr or pSer/pThr residues in vivo.
To study patients, and ask them about their experiences relating to a particular treatment episode, brings us closer to actually investigating revealed preferences (what people do) than stated preferences (what people say they do) [ 27].
And where action is actually undertaken, the preference is for granting preferences to the poorer countries, with yet deeper preferences for the poorest among them (the least-developed countries, or LDCs, as they are now called).
Thus, for each voter, we have a number of possible preference orderings – we do not know which of these orderings actually represents the preferences of the voter, but for each ordering, we know the probability that it does.
