'mild preference' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a slight or gentle preference for something or someone. Example: "I have a mild preference for chocolate ice cream over vanilla, but I'll still eat either one."
Even if people have only a mild preference for living near others who are like them, the Schelling segregation model shows how neatly groups are likely to sort themselves.
Asked if he has hard-core social-conservative acquaintances, he answers simply: "No .GroupthinkBecause Americans are so mobile, even a mild preference for living with like-minded neighbours leads over time to severe segregation.
It's quite menacing, I think, the counterpoint in that chant, with the understated use of the word "like" confirming that half the fun is in embracing a powerfully destructive and hateful identity in a casual way, as if it's merely a mild preference.
Just before an election, for example, voters who earlier had only a mild preference for one party or candidate may be inspired by media coverage not only to take the trouble to vote but perhaps also to contribute money or to help a party organization in some other way.
Surprisingly, however, he also found that initially integrated boards tipped into full segregation even if the agents' happiness rules expressed only a mild preference for having neighbors of their own type.
While he began with a mild preference for earth orbit rendezvous, Shea "prided himself", according to space historians Murray and Cox, "on going wherever the data took him".
Even when everyone has these relatively mild preferences for similar neighbors and no one prefers a segregated local neighborhood, the model dynamics result in extreme segregation at the population level.
Even if everyone were comfortable living in a mixed neighborhood, extreme segregation -- by race, class or income -- could still emerge from people's mild preferences not to be outnumbered.
Mr. Harford provides another one when he shows how mild preferences for living among people of one's own race or culture can produce neighborhoods so segregated that, at first glance, only virulent racism could seem to account for the result.
Loblolly pine's preference for mild, wet climates has made it a model for ecological considerations relating to carbon sequestration in coastal plain plantations (Noormets et al. 2010).
There was consensus that patients with severe knee symptoms who want to be referred should be referred and that patient with moderate or mild symptoms and strong preference against referral should not be referred.
