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How we may have been misled into believing in the interpersonal comparability of utility

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  1. University of California, Irvine, USA

    Louis Narens & R. Duncan Luce

  2. Harvard University, Harvard, USA

    Louis Narens & R. Duncan Luce

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Narens, L., Luce, R.D. How we may have been misled into believing in the interpersonal comparability of utility. Theor Decis 15, 247–260 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00125671

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