Re:Does prospect theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?
by whack on Monday November 21, 2016 @10:01PM
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Where in the article does the author "push the point that people simply have a misguided perception of reality"? I don't see any such point being made anywhere. The author stated that people perceive that they have lost something. Whether or not this perception is rational, is something the author does not take any stand on.
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Re:Does prospect theory explain Trump and Brexit votes?
by TTPrograms on Monday November 21, 2016 @10:58PM
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The author is implying that the rationality of voting for Trump was, for his supporters, strongly dependent on the subtleties of their perception of the distributions of outcomes for electing each candidate. An alternative would be that Trump offered an objectively superior outcome for those constituents, in which case only highly delusional perspectives on the outcome would suggest an alternate course.