Notwithstanding these overall tendencies, most respondents' preferred allocation splits did not vary much from scenario to scenario, and a sizeable minority (38.2%) of respondents chose the same allocation split in all five scenarios, i.e. regardless of government spending on cancer and other medical research.
Technically, ≽ is a binary relation on A, allowing the DM to compare pairs of allocations a, a*∈ A. We read a≽ a* as "the DM weakly prefers allocation a to allocation a*" and denote the asymmetric and the symmetric part of ≽ by ≻ and ~, respectively.
The vast majority of responders (69%) preferred the allocation of resources to already diseased patients over avoidance of the same health state in all five comparisons.
Producers who commented on this aspect indicated they preferred the clear allocation of responsibility for the preparation, maintenance and protection of "woodlots" that is inherent in the private ownership rules of tree tenure adopted for trees planted by individuals during the second phase.
Aged 3 or 4, most children behave selfishly, while by the age of 7 or 8 the vast majority prefer resource allocations that remove inequality.
At age 3 4, the overwhelming majority of children behave selfishly, whereas most children at age 7 8 prefer resource allocations that remove advantageous or disadvantageous inequality.
One must know individual preferences over other alternatives involving permutations of bundles (an envious individual would prefer an allocation in which his bundle is permuted with one he envies).
preferred time of arrival.
If there are several individuals 0, the RA compares the payoffs of the individuals with index 1 and again prefers the allocation with the higher payoff.
Moreover, when modelling tree biomass, the use of species-specific equations are preferred because trees of different species may differ greatly in architecture and wood density [59], and architecture can influence biomass allocation and allometry [41, 42].
