Worse, everyone’s going to have a different set point for stated preference strength even if they don’t intentionally overstate or understate their preferences. We can get away with using verbiage like “rate X on a 1 to 5 scale” for collecting statistics, because set point variations will average out over a large enough data set—but that doesn’t fly for interpersonal interactions.
Worse, everyone’s going to have a different set point for stated preference strength even if they don’t intentionally overstate or understate their preferences. We can get away with using verbiage like “rate X on a 1 to 5 scale” for collecting statistics, because set point variations will average out over a large enough data set—but that doesn’t fly for interpersonal interactions.
For example, xkcd