"They're inclined to favor things that win them Brownie points in the short term".
There is also our immersion in digital technology, which, according to the American sociologist Richard Sennett in his 2008 book, "The Craftsman," encourages us to favor things that seem intuitive and personal, over chilly uniformity.
While the new Windows 8 Start screen is a colorful alternative for displaying frequently used programs, widgets and apps, it may not appeal as much to people who favor things in lists, or who are not using a touch-screen computer.
And of course it is at least partially because Facebook's algorithms favor things that increase engagement and time on site, which often means the likes of clickbait, misleading and provocative content, divisive content that generates argument, and so on.
If the design takes significant market share, however, it could favor things like makers of flash memory, or the graphical user interface chips of Nvidia, while threatening traditional security companies like Symantec –and of course, operating system and applications giant Microsoft.
For a casual outdoor party, he favors things that "straddle formal and informal," he said.
Then he was asked if he would be more likely to support Ms. Byrum if he knew she favored things like smaller class size and better-trained teachers.
Grabner also favors things whose chief reason for being is shameless splendor, such as a vast curtain of slim metal chains, spangled with costume jewels and weighted with antique hand tools, by Joel Otterson; and a hanging cascade of colored cords by the veteran fabric artist Sheila Hicks.
You can see that the Martins favored things formally compact (often small enough to hold in your hand) and exquisitely refined, like a graceful four-inch marble bowl encircled by the smoothly carved heads and wings of ducks (from Egypt, circa 1938-1759 B.C).
So using my ratings, I was favoring things that had been doing well.
