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opción preferente

English translation: most-selected option

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Spanish term or phrase:opción preferente
English translation:most-selected option
Entered by: Manuel Aburto

16:46 Nov 6, 2022
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Mathematics & Statistics / Survey
Spanish term or phrase: opción preferente
Buen día,

Continuo trabajando en el documento sobre datos estadísticos. A continuación un poco de contexto:

¿Usted o algún miembro de su hogar ha pasado todo un día y una noche sin
comer nada porque no había suficiente comida?

Respuesta a la pregunta complementaria ¿Con qué frecuencia sucedió esto?

Aunque adjunté la imagen de la tabla, más o menos estos son los valores que refleja dicha tabla:

[Columna 1] País
[Columna 2] Muchas veces (más de 10)
[Columna 3] Algunas veces (3-10) Nicaragua: 100% - Honduras 50%
[Columna 4] Pocas veces (1-2)

En el caso de Honduras y Nicaragua, la **opción preferente** es “algunas veces”, que en el segundo de los casos representa la totalidad de las respuestas. En el caso de El Salvador y Guatemala la opción predominante es “pocas veces”. Los resultados indican que el tipo de episodios que se examina con la pregunta son reducidos



Hago la consulta porque simplemente me parece que la frecuencia de ocurrencia (algunas veces) de un evento "pasar todo un día y una noche sin comer" no es algo por lo que los encuestados tengan preferencia ("preferente").

Solo espero haber logrado darme a entender con mi pregunta.
Manuel Aburto
Nicaragua
Local time: 08:32
most-selected option
Explanation:
I think anything relating to "preferred" or "chosen" would be strange, given that the context is dealing with food shortage (almost never a desirable condition, to my mind).

I've tried to strike a note of neutrality with the descriptor "most-selected".
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William Hepner
United States
Local time: 10:32
Grading comment
Gracias William!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +3most-selected option
William Hepner
4preferred option / majority option / prevalent option / predominant option
Alberto de Antonio Rivera
3prevailing option
Silvana Cecotto


Discussion entries: 1





  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
most-selected option


Explanation:
I think anything relating to "preferred" or "chosen" would be strange, given that the context is dealing with food shortage (almost never a desirable condition, to my mind).

I've tried to strike a note of neutrality with the descriptor "most-selected".

William Hepner
United States
Local time: 10:32
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Gracias William!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard
25 mins
agree  neilmac: Can't disagree with that....
1 hr
agree  Neil Ashby
14 hrs
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
prevailing option


Explanation:
Adjective meaning (pre)dominant


    https://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=prevailing
Silvana Cecotto
United States
Local time: 09:32
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Neil Ashby: Predominant, but not necessarily selected.
8 hrs
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2 days 3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
preferred option / majority option / prevalent option / predominant option


Explanation:
In my opinion, this is pure statistics, thus nothing to do with feelings, even being food shortage the regrettable object of the statistic. Therefore, "preferred option" still sounds the most logical and natural translation. But if there is a need to have feelings involved, then many choices are available: majority, prevalent or prevailing, predominant etc.

Alberto de Antonio Rivera
Spain
Local time: 16:32
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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