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We first show that almost all the preference information of a decision maker can be represented as a collection of linear constraints. By introducing the positive and negative deviations, we construct the the multiple goal linear programming (MGLP)-based inconsistency recognition model to find out the redundant and contradicting constraints. Then, based on the redundancy and contradiction degrees, we propose three types of adjustment strategies and accordingly adopt some explicit and implicit indices w.r.t. the capacity to test the implementation effect of the adjustment strategy. The empirical analyses verify that all the strategies are competent in the adjustment task, and the second strategy usually costs relatively less effort. 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