Similarly, the desire to look competent may cause people to suppress comments they fear others will think foolish.A preference for agreement can lead to a bias towards the obvious.
To tackle this issue, we propose to confront the semantic descriptions of question answer pairs by linguists with Sacks' notion of preference for agreement.
We will see that the design of question answers by the participants of news interviews systematically flouts semantic predictions as well as preference for agreement.
The leaders emerged from their session with him with what appeared a nod and wink: while they did not expect Mr. Gore to be disloyal to his president, they said, they did expect that his preference for a tougher agreement could help them defeat Mr. Clinton's efforts to remove trade barriers against the Chinese.
By comparison, the apparent kcat for l-Cys transferase activity of FosB Sa activated by physiological concentrations of Mn2+ (∼10 μM) is 0.05 s–1, indicating that FosB Sa has a preference for BSH in agreement with published results.
In his speech at the Atlantic Council, Canete said the US was pivotal to a global climate deal – but he reiterated Europe's preference for a legally binding agreement, which would be practically impossible for Barack Obama in the current US domestic political scene.
The administration made relatively little of NATO's offer of military help in Afghanistan, though it would have been easy to accept; in contrast, Mr Bush happily agreed to Mr Putin's demand to enshrine the nuclear-arms reductions in a verifiable treaty, casually abandoning his strong preference for a gentleman's agreement by handshake.
This pattern of responding was observed for both beliefs (88% agreement for unambiguous belief vs. 53% agreement for ambiguous belief inferences) and preferences (84% agreement for unambiguous preference vs. 51% agreement for ambiguous preference inferences).
However, as currently proposed, the agreement's preference for penalties over incentives is liable to lead to acrimony, legal quagmires, and a reduction of the already low level of cooperation between governments and systemically important operators.
Within the context of household, dental care is a weighted outcome determined by income, price of treatment, time cost, variables affecting tastes and preferences for preventive care, agreement among members of the joint household with respect to altering market opportunities, and the amount of income forgone due to seeking treatment, in conjunction with the expected expenses of dental treatment.
1TCM and 2TCM fits of regions with high specific binding showed similar AIC, a preference for the 1TCM, and good VT agreement (0.1% difference).
