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An Ordering Experiment.
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Binary comparison operators form the basis of consumer set theory. If humans could only perform binary comparisons, the most efficient procedure a human might employ to make a complete preference ordering of n items would be a n log2n algorithm. But, if humans are capable of assigning each item an ordinal utility value, they are capable of implementing a more efficient linear algorithm. In this paper, we consider six incentive systems for ordering thre...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/S0167-2681(02)00050-1
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Journal website
- Volume:
- 50
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 249 - 262
- Publication date:
- 2003-02-01
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- ISSN:
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0167-2681
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- Language:
- English
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- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:14255
- Deposit date:
- 2011-08-16
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- Elsevier Science BV
- Copyright date:
- 2003
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- © 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 50, 2, (February 2003) DOI#10.1016/S0167-2681(02)00050-1
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