WHETHER they preferred apartments uptown or downtown, walk-up or doorman buildings, and old or new construction, many New Yorkers agreed on one thing about the Manhattan real estate market in the last year: it was safer to rent than to buy.
Patients were asked about the mode of data collection, e.g., their willingness to complete QOL questionnaires in the future (at the hospital as well as at home), their preferred mode of administration (paper-pencil, clinic-ePRO, or no preference), and whether they preferred phone calls over home-ePRO.
As adults, the female offspring were tested for partner preference (that is, whether they preferred to spend time with a sexually receptive female or a sexually active male) and sexual behavior.
But the respondents were evenly divided about whether they preferred to focus on reducing the deficit or cutting taxes.
He asked his Facebook friends whether they preferred communism or democracy — and said that he opted for the latter.
Another question posed by researchers was given to women, and asked whether they preferred a bearded male significant other.
Voters spent yesterday deciding whether they preferred the dullness of François Hollande over the irrepressible but grating Nicolas Sarkozy.
They measured the men's level of interest in children by asking whether they preferred pictures of adult or infant faces when both were presented at the same time.
And there were, indeed, the offbeat questions, like whether the candidates had smoked marijuana and whether they preferred PC's to Macs.
In 2009 a Rasmussen poll reported that Americans under 30 years old were "essentially evenly divided" as to whether they preferred "capitalism" or "socialism".
In one experiment, bar patrons in Boston sampled and rated whether they preferred a "regular" beer (Sam Adams or Budweiser) or an "M.I.T. brew" (the same beer with several drops of balsamic vinegar).
