Our first main conclusion here will be that we strongly reject exact linear aggregation when focusing on the set of all rational households in our sample.
As before, the idea is to partition our set of 326 rational households into a number of subsets, such that each subset contains households which, together, are exactly linearly aggregable.
An economically rational family would ask the lowest paid household member to take that task.
Finally, a practical design example of an agent-based household appliance, namely Multi-agent Washing Assistant as a special instance of Rational Home Assistant, is demonstrated.
Intuitively, we would expect that a rational, utility maximizing household would not send a member abroad in this case unless they expected remittance income to offset the loss of domestic income.
If our wife weren't on hand to criticize us & contribute to the rational balance of the household by never making the same sort of mistakes we do, we shudder to think of the lopsided consequences.
In the second interpretation, trust is approached as a cognitive phenomenon or a judgment based on a rational gamble and therefore household perception of other actors' interests is important.
Assuming that farm households make rational decisions, their involvement in the implementation of various adaptation measures is linked to maximizing future benefits.
Thus, our key research question is, "will an environmentally conscious household make a rational choice by buying CFLs that will help reduce waste instead of incandescent bulbs?" This is against the background assumption that consumers are likely to choose wrongly as a result of lack of awareness (see [2]).
The assumption that households make such rational choices seems difficult to verify in practice [4, 30].
