...Predicting Preferences Prediction involves making a statement concerning the likely value of an event or action uncertain or unknown at the time of the statement. Since the theory of probability, (inaugurated by the French mathematicians Blaise Pascal and Pierre Fermat in 1654), was developed to quantify uncertain events in terms of their likelihood of occurrence, formal prediction is now viewed as a mathematical topic involving probabilistic modeling. Indeed, the mathematician Karl Pearson said in 1907 that the fundamental problem in statistics is prediction. Prediction, however, is usually not an end goal itself, but rather means to put probabilistic bounds on the relative frequency or likelihood of occurrence of future uncertain events so that strategies or actions can be taken incorporating these predictions. Risk management needs predictive analysis, as does economic regulation, engineering control, and marketing effectiveness. This latter use of prediction often involves predicting an individual’s choice (or group’s choice) or preference over alterative options. Preference can be conceptualized as an individual’s (or group’s) attitude concerning a set of objects, and is usually formulated within a choice making context (i.e., X is preferred to Y if one would choose X over Y). In this way choice and preference are linked, and predicting preferences is akin to predicting choices. An auxiliary question is to formulate models that explain “why” or “how” the choices...
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...customers on the environment of the store (Donovan et al., 1994). However, the existing literature regarding influence of the entire setting of the store/outlet on the emotional reaction of the customers and their approach to purchase and loyalty, when all components of the store environment traditionally identified by music, lighting, colour, smell, temperature, decorative, etc. come into play together, is limited. Problem Statement: Theoretical frameworks to adequately determine the effect of surrounding or store ambiance in consumer behaviour are lacking which leads managers to depend on their intuitions while designing the store area. This leads to a selection of specific design without knowing the effect of that design on consumer preference. Such selections...
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...besa44438_ch03.qxd 10/12/04 5:45 PM Page 68 3 3.1 3.2 C H A P T E R CONSUMER PREFERENCES AND THE CONCEPT OF UTILITY R E P R E S E N TAT I O N S OF PREFERENCES UTILITY FUNCTIONS APPLICATION 3.1 APPLICATION 3.2 APPLICATION 3.3 APPLICATION 3.4 Influencing Your Preferences How People Buy Cars: The Importance of Attributes Taste Tests Hula Hoops and Pet Rocks Why Do You Like What You Like? If you are thinking about buying a car, your choices can be overwhelming: Should you buy or lease? New car or used? A sport utility vehicle, a sedan, a sports car, or a minivan? Should you get a sunroof or four-wheel drive? How much extra would you pay for a vehicle that will have a high resale value in the future? What are the expected operating expenses for each model—insurance, repairs, gasoline, and so on? Finally, what opportunities will you forgo if you buy a car? How else could you spend your money, either today or in the future? Making decisions about a product with many options is not easy. Before buying a car, for example, you might draw on the experiences of friends and family, read advertisements, visit dealers, and test-drive vehicles. You might also research different models and financing options on the Web, read Consumer Reports, price insurance rates for favorite models, or even visit chat rooms frequented by car buffs. As a consumer, you make choices every day of your life. Besides choosing among automobiles, you must decide what kind of housing to rent...
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...Week 4 Career Plan: Culture Preferences After completing the “Work Culture” preferences, I was not surprised by the results. It stated that I like working with a team of close knit people who are independent and supportive, having great ideas and being the “go to person” is my strong point because I enjoy being in control of my schedule and assignments. It also stated that I need a comfortable place to work that is safe and has all of the necessary resources to do my job. In general this description fits who I think I am as an employee as well as a leader. Completion of the Career Interest Profiler and the Competencies exercise was helpful in my search to determine what I needed to work on. Career interest profiler simplifies what career would be best suited for you by how you answer the questions asked. Within the competencies, I found that I have a lot of strength in team building. After completing both of those I found it easier to make a decision to stay with my original career path in entrepreneurship. I will focus on the business administration aspect, later venturing into human resource management. This will allow me opportunity to do all that my work culture results outlined. The work culture preferences were very similar to my personal competency results from week two of the course. In week two, after finishing the personal competency exercise, I learned that I am on the right path. The competency test stated that I was well organized, enjoyed being...
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...Preference Assessment Assignment Student Background Brandon R. is a 12 year old male diagnosed with Autism. He presents no fine or gross motor issues. He does show many delays and deficits in language and social skills. Brandon likes interacting with age appropriate peers and has many age appropriate likes and dislikes. Part 1: Develop a reinforcer menu To develop a reinforcer menu for Brandon, I observed him during free choice time, asked his mother for input, and I asked him directly. I explained to his mother how I was going to conduct the reinforcer assessment and then told her what things he was currently enjoying in school. She then added to my list and even sent some extra food supplies to school the next day. Brandon has many age appropriate likes but his likes frequently change from day to day or hour to hour. I was able to identify seven stable items to use in the reinforce menu that stay as constant likes for Brandon. Reinforcer Menu: 1. Goldfish crackers 2. 5 minutes of iPad time 3. M & M’s 4. 5 minutes of computer time 5. Chips Ahoy! Cookies 6. 5 minutes of drawing time 7. Mario Kart Wii toy Part 3: Systematic Preference Assessment: Forced Choice |Pair * | |Pair** | | |ITEM # |Student Choice |ITEM # |Student Choice | |3 6 |3 |2 6 |2 | |1 ...
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...of preference for residence hall facilities and amenities, study of a developing country Fatemeh Khozaei1*, Ahmad Sanusi Hassan1 and T Ramayah2 1 School of Housing Building and Planning, Universiti Sains, Malaysia. 2 School of management, Universiti Sains, Malaysia. Accepted 15 June, 2011 The main purpose of this study was to explore the degree of university residence hall students’ preferences for some facilities and amenities. With a case study of a developing country, this paper also aimed to determine whether the mean score of these preferences differed significantly with regard to students’ gender, nationality, race and study level. Structured questionnaires were administrated to 850 residence hall students, and 752 questionnaires were usable out of these numbers. The result of the study indicated that free internet access, lockable storage space and mirror inside student’s room, water machine and variety of food in food stall were the 5 most preferred facilities in the residence halls. Additionally, this study highlighted the importance of some specific facilities such as kitchen, laundry monitoring system and 24 h available taxi from students’ perspective. It was found that students had a great interest to these facilities as well. The research further uncovered a significant difference among male and female students, race and study level on their degree of preferences. Undergraduates, Chinese, and female students reported greatest preferences for...
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...Work Culture Preferences Townes, Christopher Gen/200 July 10, 2013 Dr. Johnella Bradford Work Culture Preferences My Career Plan: Work Culture Preference states that I am an ethical well-resourced expert. Based on over one-hundred questions given that narrow down what I would like in an ideal job setting, I had only the choices of not at all or more likely. Knowing my ideal work culture not only would allow me to benefit my organization to achieve goals but will also allow me to achieve personal goals as well. I’m excited to find the work culture preference results returned that being ethical was the first of the three qualities it defined me as. Emphasis on fairness and equal rights has always been important to me, I believe that my timed served in the Navy is a reinforcing factor in that you should not segregate by gender, ethnicity or cultures. There should be no one person that is looked at as inferior or not qualified to complete any task assigned. I would look for the people who would not be afraid to express themselves freely and contribute their thoughts and ideas to better the organization. The next quality work culture preference defined in my results was that I was well resourced. Providing a safe and comfortable work environment with all the necessary resources to do high standard work is paramount, ensuring that encourages employees to want to work and perform at their highest level. A safe environment results towards limitless performance, innovation and...
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...Work Culture Preferences Marcia P. Smith BCOM/275 June 24, 2014 Jacqueline Gray-Crawford Work Culture Preferences My results of the Career Activity’s Work Culture Preferences survey showed that I prefer high powered, demanding jobs that are well-resourced and have a professionally ethical environment. These results tell me a lot about how I should communicate and what channels I should use to achieve effective communication. Presently I prefer to communicate via meetings and telephone conversations, but my survey results reveal that I will need to transition to faster more effective ways if I want to operate at the highest level of efficiency. In high-powered work situations, time restraints are real and the way in which we communicate in these situations are very different from the way we communicate when time is not “of the essence”. Knowing that my work culture preference is a time-restraining, fast career advancement environment will now force me to rely on the fastest channels available to relay my messages. Communicating using channels like cellular phones, emails, teleconferencing and texting will prove most effective for me in my ideal work environment. To successfully work within my time limits, I will not be able to attend or schedule many face-to-face meetings, do much travelling for conferences or meetings nor use paper based correspondences as these channels require more time. My results disclose something else about my messages – the quality of them will...
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...March 25th, 2014 Mrs. Carr BCOM 275 Work Culture Preference It’s all about being around different work situations that help you determine which work cultures you do best in and which ones may not work as well. It is obviously good to be in a safe place to work and be comfortable but it is also good to be helpful in all the ways in which your business expects. I also learned that it is good to put more emphasis on subjects that matter in any career and with more engagement these will encourage you to do much better and be more creative and dynamic in different work conditions. I think this also helps me tremendously organize my communication strategies and how I influence a group of people or team type atmosphere. I really like to make others see that their job choice is the right one and that if you work together you can all be leaders in your own ways and have the jobs that you want in any type of condition you choose to put yourself in. I like to think of every job I get as an opportunity to do something important for people and have the opportunities to show that I can be a very important and strong influence on my fellow workers and team mates. Another reason I felt that this was so important is because it shows you what you have to be to succeed at other jobs and what it takes to keep your organization at a professional level and so really you never slack at what you do. Very important to take this work culture preference resource because I have a better picture of what...
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...Choosing one over another is difficult especially when your future depends upon it. To be more ascertain people get to use their preference in such a way that they would not be put at risk. Preference is the act of preferring, choosing, or favoring one above other. One example of this is choosing what career path to be taken in College. But it is not simply choosing, there are some factors associated why people choose one above other. A student might choose Engineering because he is good at Mathematics or Accountancy because it is an in-demand course. This proves that choosing a career path is an important decision that will make in determining future plans because this decision will impact throughout ones lives. Usually, this occurs in the midst of fourth year in high school of the students. For them to be able to go onto higher level, they are sought to choose a career path among many options. But because of these many options they tend to be more confused and they tend used their preference. Notre Dame of Kabacan is just one of the school institutions in Kabacan, North Cotabato that caters secondary level of education. This school has fourth year high school students that might experience the same situation. In this study, the researcher will: determine what is the career preferred by students; identify the factors affecting their preference; determine the advantages and disadvantages in choosing a career; and identify the problems encountered by the students in choosing...
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...Gender Differences in Preference for Product Design By Ellie Taylor 2008-2009 A PSYC3170 Major Project Supervised by Dr Steve Westerman and Dr Ed Sutherland A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of BSc (International) Psychology And in agreement with the University of Leeds’ Declaration of Academic Integrity [pic] Institute of Psychological Sciences University of Leeds Acknowledgements I would like to personally thank Steve Westerman, Ed Sutherland and Peter Gardner for the help and time they gave me to complete this project. Without their constant support it would have been much harder to produce. A special thanks goes to Steve Westerman for creating the computer programme used, and guidance with statistics. CONTENTS Title Page…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….1 Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...2 Contents Page……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3 Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…..4 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..5 1. How are Aesthetic Preferences Formed………………………………………………………………………….……………6 1. Previous Experience…………………………………………………………………………………………….……………..6 2. Physiological Feelings and Threat Perception……..……………………………………………………….………..6 3. Evolution……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...
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...Questionnaire for Ice Cream Industry Instruction Only choose one answer from the below given options. Part I: Personal Details 1) Name: __________________________________________________________________________________ 2) Gender: Male / Female 3) Marital Status: a. Single b. Married c. Widowed d. Divorced e. Separated 4) Age: a. 15 – 24 b. 25 – 34 c. 35 – 44 d. 45 – 54 e. 55 – 64 f. 65+ 5) Occupation: ____________________________________________________________________________ 6) Contact Number: (_____) (___________________________) 7) E-mail Address: ________________________________________________________________________ Part II: Preference Test 1) Do you eat ice-cream? a. Yes b. No 2) Which brand of ice-cream do you prefer? a. Vadilal b. Amul c. Baskin-Robins d. Other: ________________________ 3) On a scale of 5, How much would you recommend it to your friend? (5 being the most recommendable) a. 5 b. 4 c. 3 d. 2 e. 1 f. 0 4) In which form do you prefer ice-cream? a. Kulfi b. Cone c. Scoop d. Party pack e. Candy f. Sundaes g. Gallatin h. Gourmet 5) When do you eat ice-cream? a. Daily b. Sometimes c. Summers d. Depends on mood e. Whenever you feel like 6) Rate the parameters you consider while buying an ice-cream. (5 is highest level of consideration) 1 Quality Price Variety Availability Advertisement Packaging Promotional Schemes Taste 2 3 4 5 7) How much do you spend on one...
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...TChapter I The Problem and Its Setting This chapter presents the background of the study, statement of the problem, scope and limitation of the study, significance of the study, and definition of terms used in this study. Introduction Living in the era of technology, people nowadays are looking for more machines or equipments to better accomplish their tasks, thus, the onset of the Automatic Tubig Machine (ATM). People became reliant to this machine for their source of drinking water and are preferred by consumers instead of water delivery services especially for people who find the task of calling the water stations for delivery a tedious job. This study aims to find out why the Automatic Tubig Machine is preferred by most consumers compared to water delivery services. This will answer how convenient this machine is for the people in Koronadal City who have experienced obtaining their drinking water from the automatic tubig machine. The result of this study will not only benefit the citizens of the city but also the businessmen who are engaged in the same business or the businessmen who plan on entering the same business. Furthermore, the purpose of this study is to really know why this machine became famous to the people in Koronadal, given the fact that people are used to have their water delivered. This would also answer the questions to why they did and why they did not get their water to the ATM. Statement of the Problem This study aimed to determine...
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...“Career Preferences of the Fourth Year Students of St. Joseph Academy of Valenzuela. School Year 2009-2010” _______________________ A Thesis Presented to The Division of Graduate Studies and Research ______________________ The National Teachers College ______________________ In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Education ____________________ by Fatima B. Feticio (1:00pm-4:00pm) March 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Acknowledgment iii List of Figure ix Chapter 1 The Problem—Its Background …………………………………. Statement of the Problem………………………………………… Importance of Study…………………………………………………. Definition of Terms……………………………………………………. Scope and Delimitation…………………………………………….. Related Literature and Studies…………………………………. 2 Method of Study……………………………………………………….. Instrument and Technique Used……………………………… 3 Presentation and Interpretation of Data…………………. 4 Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations……… Summary of Findings……………………………………………….. Conclusions………………………………………………………………. Recommendations……………………………………………………. Bibliography Appendix -- Letter of Request Questionnaire Curriculum Vitae ACKNOWLEDGMENT The researcher express her warmful thanks to the following: Mr. Kim Kirby Colibao and Ms. Charmlin Dayao, for giving inspiring words given Ms. Kathleen Dela Cruz and Mr. Pat Siegfred Lacsamana , for giving suggestions and recommendations ...
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...DISTRIBUTION, FOOD PREFERENCE, AND MATURITY LEVEL OF MAWIK (Emerita analoga) IN THE SHORELINE OF MIAGAO, ILOILO, PHILIPPINES Jamie Sin Reyes Muyana March 2013 Chapter 1 Introduction of the Study Chapter One is divided into five parts: (1) Background of the Study and Theoretical Framework of the Study, (2) Statement of the Problem and Hypothesis, (3) Significance of the Study, (4) Definition of Terms and, (5) Delimitation of the Study. Part One, Background and Theoretical Framework of the Study, presents the rationale and reason why the study is being conducted. Likewise, it describes the theoretical basis of the study and conceptual framework. Part Two, Statement of the Problem and Hypothesis, describes the general goal of the study and specific questions to be answered in the study with corresponding benefits that they can derived from the result of the study. Part Three, Significance of the Study, enumerates the beneficiaries and the corresponding benefits that they can derived from the result of the study. Chapter 2 Related Literature Chapter Two is divided into five parts: (1) Mawik, (2) Shoreline of Miagao, (3) Distribution of Mawik, (4) Biology of Mawik, and (5) Summary. Part One, Mawik, this is the part where the characteristics, uses and importance of Mawik as a marine crustacean will be presented. Part Two, Distribution of Mawik, this part talks about the techniques use to know the distribution of Mawik, the distribution in a certain area...
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