# Preferences are not transitive Counterintuitively, if someone prefers A over B and they prefer B over C that does not necessarily mean that if presented with choices A and C they would always pick A. <!-- #evergreen --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Preferences+are+not+transitive) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Preferences+are+not+transitive) <!-- {BearID:203CA4DA-9DC9-4E48-9D93-A3CE9026DF74-692-0006AF46B1A79BC1} -->