Economic experiments, in the lab or field, are an attractive tool to address intricate incentive and contextual questions that arise in assessing values through direct statements of preferences.
Intervention: The Joint Crisis Plan was formulated by the patient, care co-ordinator, psychiatrist, and project worker, containing contact information, details of illnesses, treatments, relapse indicators, and advance statements of preferences for care for future relapses.
Hence, despite not being legally binding in Quebec, prior statements of preferences could be of great assistance to substitute decision-makers and providers when healthcare decisions must be made for incapable patients.
Intervention: The joint crisis plan was formulated by the patient, care coordinator, psychiatrist, and project worker and contained contact information, details of mental and physical illnesses, treatments, indicators for relapse, and advance statements of preferences for care in the event of future relapse.
It is a statement of fact rather than a statement of preference.
The prediction "got translated into a statement of preference," he said.
Al Gore received half a million votes more than Mr. Bush -- a statement of preference for the Democratic agenda.
"I am not attracted to Asian men," like "I don't like broccoli," is less a statement of preference than one of taste.
But I wonder if voters are already making a statement of preference with a 4.7% turnout, that statement being: Come to us with the important stuff, and stop bothering us with elections for offices that we don't know or care anything about.
