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Normative or prescriptive decision theory seeks to prescribe how decisions should be made.
Descriptive or positive is the term to describe how people actually make decisions in the real world.
Both descriptive and prescriptive decision theory are closely related -- descriptive study provides hypotheses for prescriptive consideration, while prescriptions are hypotheses to be tested in the real world.
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