Isha's dad, who likes to subject his children to various economic experiments, gave her the following pairs of choices over shows she can attend. A: Ed Sheeran or Bruce Springsteen; B: Bruce Springsteen or Coldplay and C: Coldplay or Ed Sheeran. Isha chose Bruce Springsteen for Choice A, Coldplay for Choice B and Ed Sheeran for Choice C. This suggests that Isha's choices:

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Isha's choices are inconsistent with the principle of transitivity, which would require that if she prefers Bruce Springsteen over Ed Sheeran, and Coldplay over Bruce Springsteen, then she should prefer Coldplay over Ed Sheeran, but she chose Ed Sheeran over Coldplay.

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