OP is really claiming, without a fair and balanced presentation of evidence, that people are less-able to make ambiguous statements about payoffs, than to make ambiguous statements about probability.
I was going more for the point that some ambiguous questions about probabilities are disguised less-ambiguous questions about payoffs, not claiming that people aren’t able to make ambiguous statements about payoffs or that reframing in terms of payoffs can resolve ambiguity in any probability problem.
OP draws the conclusion from this that probability is a meaningless and useless concept.
No I don’t, and I’m surprised if the post gave the impression that I did. Thanks for the feedback and vote explanation though.
I was going more for the point that some ambiguous questions about probabilities are disguised less-ambiguous questions about payoffs, not claiming that people aren’t able to make ambiguous statements about payoffs or that reframing in terms of payoffs can resolve ambiguity in any probability problem.
No I don’t, and I’m surprised if the post gave the impression that I did. Thanks for the feedback and vote explanation though.
(ETA: I did not downvote you.)
To provide my feedback data point in the opposite direction, I found this to be well-expressed in the OP.
Same for me.