Subjects judged the disutility of health conditions "e[g[ blindness# using one of them "e[g[ blindness¦deafness# as a standard\ using three elicitation methods] analog scale "AS\ how bad is blindness compared to blindness¦deafness<#^mag! nitude estimation "ME\ blindness¦deafness is how many times as bad as blind! ness<#^and person trade!o} "PTO\ how many people cured of blindness is as good as 09 people cured of blindness¦deafness<#[ ME disutilities of the less bad condition were smallest\ and AS was highest[ Interleaving PTO with ME made PTO more like ME[ AS disutilities were inconsistent with direct judgments of di}erences between pairs of conditions[ ME and PTO judgments were internally inconsistent] e[g[ the disutility of one!eye!blindness relative to blindness¦deafness was larger than predicted from comparison of each to blindness[ Consistency training reduced inconsistency\ increased agreement between AS and PTO\ and transferred from one method to the other[ The results support the use of con! sistency checks in utility elicitation[
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