A different participant felt it preferable to take time to think before typing and create fewer edits than to have to scrutinize the SR documents for mistakes.
EM: I used to think that death is preferable to life on one's knees.
In my paper I discuss reasons to think that a tax is preferable.
Just like "person with epilepsy" is generally preferable to "epileptic," I think "person with migraine" is preferable to "migraineur". In general, those who disagree do so for aesthetic reasons -- "migraineur" sounds more elegant, whereas "person with migraine" can sound awkward". What is your biggest takeaway from writing the book?
They call this "cognitive fluency": the idea that if something is easy to think about, we're far more likely to think it preferable, more important or true.
But there are other reasons why mediation is preferable to court, Scott thinks, "It's less confrontational.
For a negative income tax to be preferable to welfare, Pozen thinks a number of questions would need to be addressed.
Is not W1 preferable to W2? Ross thinks it is, and he says that what explains this is that virtue is intrinsically good (RG 134).
Coleridge's long-bearded, glittery-eyed sailor is made to wear a dead albatross around his neck, while his ship and its inhabitants are besieged by death — undeniably weighty symbolism, to be sure, but preferable, I think, to being tortured by Catholics in a South American prison.
As also identified by Smith et al. [ 14], some parents felt that a one-to-one session would be preferable to a group: "I think it is ideal to do one-to-one, I think you can perhaps discuss more when it is one-to-one because, especially with it being parents that you don't know, 'cause I think that you are more afraid of opening up and revealing problems" (attending parent).
