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It does, but at least at a first read I have been unable to find anything in the source given (a German language journal article on rational choice theory as an explanatory framework for schooling decisions) that would support such a sweeping statement. Only words to the effect that people frequently
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I did quickly peek into Kenan Kalayci's bio and he seems like a nice guy with his heart in the right place. However, as an economist, he would surely understand that awarding course credit for babes wet behind the wiki ears wading into the weeds with no declared social context creates at least a
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After three minutes of gradeschool cyberstalking, I was able to determine that user Nickrooney99 and Cbonqe1 are both associated with ECON3430 taught at the University of Queensland in 2021 under Kenan Kalayci, with credit awarded for improving a selected article in Economics, where both were
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Severe lack of rigor to describe the fundamentals of this subject. In desperate need of an overhaul if I can't get to it myself. No legible documentation of the axioms that describe rational choice theory and have been integral to the field for decades.
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use of it in the social sciences (under the assumption of people making rational choices). These two topics need to be discussed separately, but I would title the second page more clearly using some name like "Rational agent models".
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use common sense rather than formal reasoning for decision making. That does not seem to be the same thing, or indeed a differentiator from decision theory. In fact, decision theory does not even seem to be mentioned in the article.
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It does state that, but it's incorrect, as several people on this talk page have noted before. In fact this whole page is kind of a huge mess. The two definitely need to be merged.
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I'm a bit too swamped right now to dive into this, but the following edit is substantial with many different parts, some of which I would challenge after taking a quick skim.
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In particular, there is no remaining mention of Gary Becker after this edit, which I can't imagine is a step in the right direction given the history of this subject matter.
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There are actually two users and a total of four edits over a couple of days, both my editors with no previous activity, and no subsequent activity (reverse chronology):
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Unfortunately, there's no transparency on the grading process, and some elements of these edits are of dubious quality with sophomoric language texture.
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I will note that some people use the two slightly differently in one way: some people will use "decision theory" when referring to the field as a
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Without any intended critique of the people behind this process, I recommend reverting half or more of the diffs I've cited above.
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In my haste earlier today, I clicked the wrong diff button and confused myself about what I was looking at. My apologies.
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Rational choice theory does not explain what rational people would do in a given situation, which falls under
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This is the only edit by User:Nickrooney99 at this point in time, and the user has not created a talk page.
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Much of this can be found on the SEP page on decision theory, which should be a great source for this.
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and only came here as a byproduct, where I noticed some strange omissions, and then investigated.
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Additionally, many of the standard "also known as" clauses were removed from the lead sentence. —
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The introduction to this article says that Rational Choice Theory is often associated with the "
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In the bigger picture, there are many other economics articles associated with this course.
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somewhat misaligned incentive structure which complicates the lives of regular editors. —
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Would be very nice to have this! I've been on a spree trying to do something similar for
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model of rationality, and call it "rational choice theory" when describing the
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I think I've done enough here. I was really here to add stable preference to
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Substantial edits by Nickrooney99 and Cbonq1 for course credit in April 2021
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I sampled another one to see if the present article is an outlier:
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Baffling there is no strong statement of rational choice axioms
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Section heading changed after realizing my initial error.
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