Before revision: When making a choice between an interesting job that pays 60,000 a year and a boring job that pays 70,000 a year or a choice between two equally priced houses, one of them larger but farther from work, the average individual is likely to make false assumptions – for example, that 70,000 will make us feel exactly one-sixth better than 60,000, or that 4,000 square-foot house is one-third better than a 3,000 square-foot house.
After revision: When making a choice between an interesting job that pays 60,000 a year and a boring job that pays 70,000 a year or a choice between two equally priced houses, one of them larger but farther from work, the average individual is likely to make false assumptions – for example, that 70,000 will make them feel exactly one-sixth better than 60,000, or that 4,000 square-foot house is one-third better than a 3,000 square-foot house.