They imagined a representative human, Homo economicus, endowed with consistent preferences, stable moods, and an enviable ability to make only rational decisions.
Follow-up experiments and analyses showed that the machine preference was stable and could not be attributed to participants' mood, to their perception of text-messaging difficulty, or to the novelty of a chatterbot.
Quite plausibly, the piece concludes, he would have recommended doing more:Today, critics of Fed easing point to Friedman's preference for stable money-supply growth, to help establish central-bank discipline.
In the saline-treated control group, preference remained stable for 4 days and the decrease on Day 5 did not reach statistical significance (P = 0.095).
Their preferences were stable, they were consistent, they were precise and we found preferences to be somewhat unstable, generally inconsistent, and generally not very precise.
These findings were reinforced by the results of the LFPQ, which showed that after the low-protein diet, food preferences were enhanced and oriented toward savory foods, whereas after the high-protein diet preferences remained stable.
Furthermore, preferences appeared stable within and between interviews, suggesting that there was «very little evidence of the construction of preferences».
The algorithm training rate can be increased gradually while the algorithm proceeds and the user's preferences become stable.
But there are many categories in which consumer preferences are stable and change only over the course of decades rather than by the season.
So, to test out whether in-flight call preferences are stable, we also asked whether airlines should "continue to forbid in-flight calls".
