Sentence examples for consistent preference from inspiring English sources

Note that these EU decision theories apparently prescribe two things: (a) you should have consistent preference attitudes, and (b) you should prefer the means to your ends, or at least you should prefer the means that you assess will on average lead to your ends (cf. Buchak forthcoming).

But the puzzle remains that there are many ways to have consistent preference attitudes, and surely not all of these amount to preferring the means to one's own true ends.

He also displayed a consistent preference for force over diplomacy in dealing with the Arabs.

Presented with different numbers of live shrimp, the cuttlefish showed consistent preference for the larger quantities, suggesting they had "number sense".

The second movement leads, often without pause, into the finale, or last movement, and the finale has shown a more consistent preference for the rondo design.

During the last half-century, South Dakota has always had at least one Democratic senator or representative, a confusing tendency given the state's consistent preference for Republicans in elections of presidents and governors.

When male-male competition is excluded, a large proportion of females strongly preferred red and yellow males; however, some females showed consistent preferences for parae and blue males as well [ 50].

They imagined a representative human, Homo economicus, endowed with consistent preferences, stable moods, and an enviable ability to make only rational decisions.

The players expressed consistent preferences in each of the nine rounds they played on Professor Van Lange's watch.

For the other horses, less consistent preferences were found.

In the classical theory, the actors had very good, consistent preferences.