Violations of betweenness or random errors ? Pavlo
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A betweenness axiom states that if A and B are equally good then a mixture of A and B is equally good as well. This note demonstrates that the violations of the betweenness axiom documented in several experimental studies can be alternatively attributed to the effect of random errors.
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