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Old 11-29-2006, 09:46 PM
Xhad Xhad is offline
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Default Re: A Decision Making Error - Easy Question

Some people seem to have missed this:

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To make his decision he conducted an experiment where only those two gifts were offerred to about a thousand patrons.

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One possibility that comes to mind is that the "favorite" is similar to one of the other gifts while the "underdog" is something completely different, resulting in the "favorite" often getting passed over for one of the other gifts (or reducing the likilihood that the similar gift is chosen).
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