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Yeah, I think that this is irrelevant to the article. It's just a trick question that plays off our fondness for clean, even numbers.
by ocb 12y ago
Yeah, I think that this is irrelevant to the article. It's just a trick question that plays off our fondness for clean, even numbers.
- WalterBright 12y agoIt's a human perceptual problem, and has nothing to do with wealth or status. The book "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman goes into some detail about it.
- VLM 12y agoI saw it as a commentary on the foreign advisors sent in to fix everything in the article. Consider trust WRT poverty. Specific poor individuals remain poor (in part) because of people kinda connected to them, playing them with trick questions and financial "innovation" and manipulating them based on trust. Occasionally westerners come to visit, even less connected, and say "trust me I've got a great idea". Well, trusting non-closely-connected people is how they ended up poor / stuck being poor, so good luck with that. The analogy is, a nice magazine author from a magazine I trust, wouldn't intentionally try to screw me with a carefully designed trick linear programming question... or would they? I guess they just did, didn't they.