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I was once asked in an economics lecture what I would do in a particular situation. So I told the professor how I would try to proceed, only to be told that I w
by tvanantwerp 8y ago
I was once asked in an economics lecture what I would do in a particular situation. So I told the professor how I would try to proceed, only to be told that I was wrong--I would instead do this other thing that hadn't occurred to me at all.
- Noumenon72 8y agoEconomics is often right about that kind of thing. You think you will not snack as much if you put your M&Ms in a faraway place, but you end up doing the incentive-predicted thing and eating more M&M's each time you go to get some.