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Normative theories suggest that inconsistencies be pointed out to the Decision Maker who is thus given the chance to modify his/her judgments. In this paper, we suggest that the inconsistencies problem be transferred from the Decision Maker to the Analyst. With the Mixture of Maximal Quasi Orders, rather than pointing out incoherences for the Decision Maker to change, these inconsistencies may be used as new source of information to model his/her preferences.
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González-pachón, J., Ríos-insua, S. Mixture of Maximal Quasi Orders: a new Approach to Preference Modelling. Theory and Decision 47, 73–88 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005003012375
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