{"id":26985,"date":"2017-06-24T20:32:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T18:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/revealed-preferences\/"},"modified":"2020-09-26T21:55:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T19:55:25","slug":"revealed-preferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/revealed-preferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed Preferences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revealed Preferences is a term from economics that neatly encapsulates “watch what I do not what I say<\/strong>“.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I see this as a good guiding principle in life. Ignore your own stated preferences, goals, pleasures and interest. Analyze your actual behavior to determine your own Revealed Preferences.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It also has socio-political utility. President Trump was the shocking Revealed Preferences of more swing state voters than anyone thought.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The best predictor of future behavior is past behaviors, says psychology.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Revealed Preferences is a term from economics that neatly encapsulates “watch what I do not what I say“.\u00a0 I see this as a good guiding principle in life. Ignore your own stated preferences, goals, pleasures and interest. Analyze your actual behavior to determine your own Revealed Preferences.\u00a0 It also has socio-political utility. President Trump was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-26985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-71f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32871,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/some-conspiracies-are-real\/","url_meta":{"origin":26985,"position":0},"title":"Some conspiracies are real","author":"Limbic","date":"December 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In the 90's I used to believe any and all conspiracy theories were utter rubbish. 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