However, since ordinal utility functions are only defined up to a monotonic transformation, there is little distinction between the two concepts in practice.
But this hope is probably naive: we should expect a monotonically increasing range of choices in making various theoretical tradeoffs, rather than monotonic improvement.
Consistency, here meaning the monotonic convergence on the correct answer with the addition of more data, is a desirable property of any statistical method.
Thus, reswitching implies the rejection of a simple (monotonic) non-increasing relationship between capital intensity and either the rate of profit, sometimes confusingly referred to as the rate of interest.