It remains Porsche's core model line, if not in sheer numbers, certainly in desirability.
Ms. Mazzocco, for one, wonders if the desirability of convents will present a new wrinkle.
However, if social desirability biases change, perhaps in response to public health messages, under-reporting of risk behaviour could increase.
However, given the strong influence of the 'honne'/'tatemae' culture in Japan, it would be surprising if social desirability bias were higher in Australia.
If social desirability was a factor, we might expect that subjects would report higher functioning (i.e. higher scores) during the in-person interview as compared to the telephone interview.
You'd expect that if social-desirability bias were present, it would be more pronounced in places, times, and contexts "where the social norm of tolerance is itself stronger, but that isn't the case".
If ivory's desirability knows no cultural boundaries, its availability is another story.
Others (e.g., Broome 1991a) argue that Transitivity is part of the very meaning of the betterness relation (or objective comparative desirability); if rational preference is a judgment of betterness or desirability, then Transitivity is non-negotiable.
Obviously, a move to higher energy taxes will be unpopular, so we need some set of respected or well-liked voices in the public starting to lay the groundwork for its actual desirability, if not inevitability.
If such a desirability function was available, the approach by Gennings and Parker could be easily incorporated into the standard design algorithms used above.
