[Grammar] " people's preference"

[Yustina]

I've just happened to get stuck on the sentence in a coursebook. "We have to give gifts according to people's preference, age, and gender." Is it correct to use the word "preference" as an uncountable here? Having consulted the dictionary, I assume there's hardly any particular difference between using the word either as countable or uncountable. The expression caught my eye, I would rather say "people's preferences" in the context. Wonder what the natives would say.

 

[Rover_KE]

Welcome to the forum, Yustina. :-D

I've just happened to get stuck on a sentence in a coursebook.

Always tell us the title and author of any book you quote from, please.

 

[emsr2d2]

Please do your best to translate the title of the book into English, and give the authors' names in the Latin alphabet.

 

[Tdol]

I would say preferences.

 

[teechar]

I agree. In the above context, preferences makes more sense.
preference covers one aspect (e.g. colour).
preferences covers several aspects (e.g. colour, size, price, quality, etc).