我分享您的感觉，即从某种意义上说，这种行为是不明智的或错误的，但这并不意味着它没有发生。 '预测视觉幻觉的视力理论不能错过。同样，如果实际上观察到所讨论的行为，则不能以预测“非理性行为”为由拒绝描述性选择理论。
(I share your feeling that such behavior is, in some sense, unwise or erroneous, but this does not mean that it does not occur,' Amos wrote to an American economist who complained about the description of human nature implied by 'Value Theory.' 'A theory of vision cannot be faulted for predicting optical illusions. Similarly, a descriptive theory of choice cannot be rejected on the grounds that it predicts 'irrational behavior' if the behavior in question is in fact observed.)