> different choices when presented with the same alternatives I've never been comfortable with the assumption from the social sciences that people don't change

> different choices when presented with the same alternatives I've never been comfortable with the assumption from the social sciences that people don't change their preferences when confronted with seemingly unrelated extra options, the principle known as Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives[0]. Now it seems that there is an even weaker assumption, which perhaps should be called Independence of Relevant Alternatives, which is also not a reasonable axiom to hold. The assumption could be expressed as "A person's preference for X over Y guarantees their preference for X' over Y', whenever X' is an equivalent option to X and Y' is an equivalent option to Y." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_of_irrelevant_alternatives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_of_irrelevant_alt...