Now let’s imagine a situation where [...] there are two potential chocolate vendors, one of them of standard politeness, the second very rude. Without running the experiment, I’m confident that people will be willing to pay more in the second case than in the first.
Do you mean the first case (standard politeness)? If not, I’m not sure why you think people would be willing to pay more. Is it that the rude vendor is doing some sort of handicapping, and the fact that they’re still in business proves they have great chocolate?
Judging by the structure of your post though, I think you’re pointing out that though the rudeness doesn’t change the quality of the chocolate, it still reasonably (according to most humans) changes preferences about where to buy it
Sorry for obtuseness, but I’m still not sure if you made a typo-ish mistake or not. You say (a) “here are two potential chocolate vendors, one of them of standard politeness, the second very rude” and (b) “willing to pay more in the second case than in the first”. Subbing (a) into (b) I get “willing to pay more in the very rude case than the standard politeness case”. I think this was just a flipped word, but thought I’d check
Do you mean the first case (standard politeness)? If not, I’m not sure why you think people would be willing to pay more. Is it that the rude vendor is doing some sort of handicapping, and the fact that they’re still in business proves they have great chocolate?
Judging by the structure of your post though, I think you’re pointing out that though the rudeness doesn’t change the quality of the chocolate, it still reasonably (according to most humans) changes preferences about where to buy it
>If not, I’m not sure why you think people would be willing to pay more.
It’s more that they will pay less in the other case. Since the setup is experimental, I doubt people would reason about handicapping.
Sorry for obtuseness, but I’m still not sure if you made a typo-ish mistake or not. You say (a) “here are two potential chocolate vendors, one of them of standard politeness, the second very rude” and (b) “willing to pay more in the second case than in the first”. Subbing (a) into (b) I get “willing to pay more in the very rude case than the standard politeness case”. I think this was just a flipped word, but thought I’d check
Sorry, you are correct, that was a typo, now corrected.