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Your argument there is specious - tempting to see an implied point but on closer inspection doesn’t hold up. Only your first link about phones reveals any prefe
by dahart 2y ago
Your argument there is specious - tempting to see an implied point but on closer inspection doesn’t hold up. Only your first link about phones reveals any preference in the economic sense, and it’s irrelevant to this article. Your link about social media does not demonstrate the economic concept of revealed preference at all, since the subjects aren’t making an exclusive choice, they can and do use multiple sites, since social media doesn’t cost money, and since these are sites with very different social functions. It doesn’t make sense to ask whether kids prefer YouTube to WhatsApp, it’s like asking whether you prefer eating broccoli to playing piano to people who do both.
- scarface_74 2y agoThere is a revealed preferences of use vs non use.
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- tivert 2y ago> There is a revealed preferences of use vs non use. If you, scarface_74, are locked in a cell and fed rotten food, and you choose to eat it instead of starve, it means you like it, right? You've revealed your preference for rotten food, so I shouldn't listen to you when you say you don't like it. I think you should explain yourself more clearly. It really feels like you're trying to paper over specious argument with vagueness.
- scarface_74 2y agoI scarface_74, removed Facebook from my phone, never used TikTok, deleted my Reddit account, never used Instagram, and only use LinkedIn when im actively looking for a job. I use text messages to talk to people.
- tivert 2y agoAre you, scarface_74, a US teen? If you are, are you a typical US teen? Because if you aren't, you are probably missing something relevant about being a US teen, if you're thinking they should just do what you do.
- scarface_74 2y agoNo, because my revealed preference is the same as my stated preference…
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- AlexeyBelov 2y agoWhy did you delete your (second) reddit account?
- dahart 2y agoNo, that’s incorrect. Revealed preference theory applies only to purchases, not to non purchases, and not to whether to purchase. Revealed preference theory is tenuous at best*, and you are making incorrect assumptions and broadly misapplying it onto something that is unsupported and unjustified. * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference#Criticism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference#Criticis...
- scarface_74 2y agoYou are trading your time for some good or service. Whether it’s free or not is irrelevant. If I said I don’t like Truth Social. But I’m always on it, what does that tell you?
- tivert 2y ago> If I said I don’t like Truth Social. But I’m always on it, what does that tell you? Let's not play that game anymore. Be clear. What do you think that's supposed to tell me? Flip your question around: If I said I don’t like Truth Social. But I’m always on it, what conclusion would you infer from that?
- scarface_74 2y agoThe same - your “revealed preference” is different from your “stated preference”. Is that the point you were trying to make?
- tivert 2y ago> The same - your “revealed preference” is different from your “stated preference”. Go on. How do you interpret that? What does that tell you?
- scarface_74 2y agoIt tells me that you really like Truth Social and I shouldn’t believe what you say - you “revealed” your true “preference”