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In classical economics, one of the fundamental paradigmatic basic paradigms is what is called rational choice, and rational choice is carried out through paired comparisons of options, from which I must choose the best one. I compare them in pairs, discarding the worse one, comparing the better one with the next one, and so on until I arrive at the

best one. Back in 1956, Herbert Simon, an American scientist who later won the Nobel Prize in Economics, sharply criticized this hypothesis and explained, with an interesting explanation, the book has been translated into Russian that this is not true, that this is the model. People do not choose like this, and as an alternative

model, he proposed another, namely, that each person has a threshold level of satisfaction, and that anything above this threshold means acceptable to him, while anything below is unacceptable. Apparently, we were the first who means, well, since Simon's model was, well, it was purely speculative, so to speak, so we managed to write the corresponding

formula, write the corresponding model, this is really a threshold model in the sense that we called it then an above- threshold model in the sense that there is a threshold and everything above it threshold we consider good everything that is below this threshold is bad and it turned out that this was done in

the Eighties at the end today it turned out that these models turned out to be surprisingly in demand in completely different problems, so to speak, having nothing to do with economic choice, namely in problems of analyzing large volumes of information, this is one group of threshold models that I wanted to talk about and