Other factors such as convenience, cost and taste emerged as far more important reasons for any preference for bottled water.
Today's political system, which operates in a context of a radically unequal distribution of economic power, is far more responsive to the preferences of elites than to those of the middle class, much less the poor4.
Indeed, far more than expressing a dietary preference, they are making a declaration of Britishness and a plea for inclusion back into the British fold.
Yes, we face far more pressing problems than consumer preference for bottled water over tap, and our government's failure to sufficiently safeguard either one.
In these circles, who bought what and for how much was far more fascinating than the mating preferences of celebrities or the dark machinations of Dick Cheney.
"Yet the way UK citizens vote shows political preferences are far more diverse within nations and regions than the results suggest.
In other words, people who had substantive discussions with their doctor about their end-of-life preferences were far more likely to die at peace and in control of their situation, and to spare their family anguish.
People's preferences are far more likely to change from aggressive cure-oriented treatments toward comfort oriented treatments than vice-versa [ 53].
In principle, it's possible to have an AI that values everything we value and has similar aesthetic preferences, but it's far more likely that it will have vastly different aesthetic preferences, if it has any whatsoever.
As professor Martin Gilens of Princeton, who studied the correlation between American popular opinion polls and public policy outcomes, concluded: "[T]he preferences of economic elites have far more independent impact upon policy change than the preferences of average citizens do... ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does in the United States".
