Re:Why you should never pay for online dating (OkCupid) (2010)
by Brusco_RF on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @06:50PM
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Thats a very interesting point that I've never considered. Where can I read more about that? Is there a study you can link me to?
Re:Why you should never pay for online dating (OkCupid) (2010)
by compiler-guy on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:17PM
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11483173/ is one such study.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/preferences/#Tra has an overview, note especially the paragraph about pair-wise comparisons.
Re:Why you should never pay for online dating (OkCupid) (2010)
by imtringued on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @02:34AM
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But economists assume that preferences have a total order otherwise there wouldn't be a utility curve.
Re:Why you should never pay for online dating (OkCupid) (2010)
by compiler-guy on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:46PM
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Economists assume a utility curve in the same way that physicists assume spherical cows. They are a useful abstraction which help explain many things, but don't reflect reality completely.
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/BehavioralEconomics.html
One of the weirdest things about being human is that our preferences are neither rational nor consistent. The classic example in behavioural economics is with ice-cream flavors. If I prefer chocolate to strawberry and strawberry to vanilla, it doesn't follow that I prefer chocolate to vanilla. The preferences aren't transitive, and there doesn't exist a total preferences order.