Sentence examples for preferred gamble from inspiring English sources
The experimental moderator rolled another 10-sided die to determine whether each subject received the high or low cash payment from their preferred gamble.
After all subjects chose a preferred gamble from all 9 pairs in each of the 4 blocks, the experimental moderator collected the completed forms and then publicly rolled dice to determine which of the 18 small-magnitude gamble pairs (Blocks 1 and 2) would be chosen as the basis for payment.
The survey found that men preferred gambling on sports events or at the track.
The entire experiment took approximately 1.5 hours and the average subject payment was $50; actual payment ranged from $34 to $131 and depended upon choices made during the preferred gambles task and the roll of a die.
They were also invited to determine their preferred gambling activity, i.e. the one which they preferred among all the gambling activities they have experimented in their lives (gamblers with a multi-game profile were restricted to defining a single preferred gambling activity).
Like Nattrour, Aitcheson prefers gambling.
His experiments found humans prefer gambling on low but specific probabilities — say, a one-in-a-million shot — to gambling on the unknown.
As long as so many Americans of all ages and income levels prefer gambling as recreation and entertainment, why not bring the games near home?
Steve quickly proves that he prefers gambling to sex, but their quick, money-fuelled friendship veers into one of the scenes of deep degradation that scars the movie throughout — a scene in Flo's dressing room, where Steve shows up for a loan and crosses, in words alone, a crucial moral line (too good and too simple to spoil).
But, he said, he prefers gambling on a bigger profit.
First, differences in risky decision making may reflect reduced sensitivity to rewarding or punishing outcomes, increased risk taking (preferring gambles with more uncertain outcomes because they generate increased arousal), or other motivational differences.
