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  1. Although not pursued here, this is not inconsistent with the counter-intuitive observation by Bradley (2003: 413) that “bettors may not have fundamentally different attitudes to risk than non-bettors.”

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  2. Although the different methods here yielded virtually identical values of ρ, Hershey et al. (1982) reported that different elicitation methods yield different values

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(2006). How Companies Control Risks. In: Why Managers and Companies Take Risks. Contributions to Management Science. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7908-1696-5_8

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