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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
INTRODUCTION:
Hello, and welcome to the nerdity test. This test is designed to help you determine your nerdity quotient. In the past, someone may have watched you, or listened to something you said and then exclaimed, "You geek! What do you think you are doing?" Or maybe it's just us. In any event, we here at the nerdity testing lab were prompted to ask "just what is a nerd?" In response, we came up with this test. By taking it, you will determine your current nerdity quotient (from 0% to 100%), with 100% roughly corresponding to a pile of sludge unable to communicate with anything human except through a device that is a miracle of modern medicine and engineering, and whose only connection to the outside world is through the computer internet system.
Survey for nerds
INTRODUCTION:
Hello, and welcome to the nerdity test. This test is designed to help
you determine your nerdity quotient. In the past, someone may have watched you,
or listened to something you said and then exclaimed, "You geek! What do you
think you are doing?" Or maybe it's just us. In any event, we here at the
nerdity testing lab were prompted to ask "just what is a nerd?" In
response, we came up with this test. By taking it, you will determine your
current nerdity quotient (from 0% to 100%), with 100% roughly corresponding to
a pile of sludge unable to communicate with anything human except through a
device that is a miracle of modern medicine and engineering, and whose only
connection to the outside world is through the computer internet system.
GRADING:
As this test is being distributed primarily in places of high concentrations of
known nerds, and nerds in turn tend to have nerd friends, that someone who has
never heard of or seen the nerdity test is assumed to be 0% nerd. However, once
such knowledge comes to them, they are immediately placed in the 100% nerdity
category. This is done because it is also assumed that only a true geek would
utter something to the effect of: "Nerdity test?!? What a stupid concept!
I'm too cool to take something as dumb as that." The values in between are
determined by taking the test and scoring it as follows.
For each question below for which you can answer "yes" or
"true", take one point. At the end of the test, divide the total
number of points you scored by the total number of questions in the test. Treat
this number as a percentage that represents your nerdity quotient.
Some of the questions will have parentheticals at the end of them. What is
contained within the parentheticals is a short list of examples relating to the
given question. The list is not to be taken as all inclusive but merely as
suggestions that might apply.
All technicalities count - after all, being technical is half of what being a
nerd is all about.
RECOMMENDATIONS and HINTS:
It is felt that for maximum enjoyment, you should respond out loud with your
answers. You should treat each "yes" that you say as a personal
catharsis of what you are doing wrong (or right depending on your opinion of
nerdity) and each "no" may then be disputed by your peers. In this
way, errors due to lying or personal oversight are avoided and the test also
has a therapeutic effect for the closet nerd. As an aside, information gleaned
about others should be treated confidentially. Each of us has a dork-side that
we don't want others to know about.
Experiment shows that nerdity CAN be cured! With effort and personal
sacrifice... The nerdity quotient is a cross between proclivity toward as well
as actual current status in nerddom. Some questions are "have you
ever..." while others are "do you now...". The former register
the fact that you have a propensity toward nerdity, while the later acknowledge
the fact that you are currently geeking. Obviously, as your answers toward the
"do you now" type questions change, so will your nerd quotient.
Please use only a number two pencil. Mark all answers in your blue book. Shake
well before using. Lather. Rinse. Repeat as desired. Show all work. Refrigerate
after opening. No partial credit will be given. A table of useful formulas is
included at the end. You may begin.... NOW!
SECTION 1: Education and Schooling
1. Have you ever taken a "higher" math course? (Trig, Calculus)
2. ...at the college level?
3. ...and received an A (3.7 grade point)?
4. Are you still capable of doing what you learned in the course of #1?
5. Have you ever taken a science course? (Biology, Physics, Chemistry)
6. ...at the college level?
7. ...and received an A (3.7 grade point)?
8. Are you still capable of doing what you learned in the course of #5?
9. Have you ever majored in the "hard sciences"? (engineering,
physics chemistry, etc. but excluding psychology, economics, etc.)
10. Have you ever taken Latin?
11. Have you ever asked a question in lecture?
12. Have you ever answered a question asked in lecture?
13. Have you ever corrected a professor in lecture?
14. Have you ever answered a rhetorical question?
15. Have you ever given a lecture?
16. Do you sit in the front row more than 20% of the time?
17. Have you ever had a "perfect attendance record"?
18. Have you ever verified an equation in a science text on your own? (i.e.
experimental proof)
19. Have you ever derived an equation you found in a science text?
20. ...when you didn't have to?
21. ...using other principles? (starting from a different equation than the
text did)
22. Do you take notes in more than one color?
23. Do you use other props when taking notes? (ruler, compass, protractor)
24. Have you ever tutored someone else?
25. Have you ever done homework on a Friday night?
26. Have you ever pulled an all-nighter?
27. Have you taken any classes pass/fail just to preserve your GPA?
28. Have you ever known more about the subject material than the lecturer?
29. ...but continued in the class because you "needed the grade?"
30. ...and had the lecturer admit this fact to you?
31. Have you ever had an argument with a professor?
32. Did you win?
33. Has a lecturer ever referred someone to you as being more knowledgeable?
34. Did you apply to any college merely for the sake of "seeing if I would
get in"?
35. Was your SAT math more than 300 above your verbal?
36. Did you score higher than 1200 combined on the SAT?
SECTION 2: Knowledge
37. Can you count in binary? (up to decimal 10)
38. Can you count in hexadecimal? (up to decimal 20)
39. Can you count in Roman numerals?
40. Do you know Maxwell's equations? (integral or differential form)
41. Do you know Schroedinger's Equation?
42. Have you ever solved Schroedinger's Equation?
43. ...for fun?
44. Do you know the difference between a scalar and a vector?
45. Do you know the difference between a vector and a tensor?
46. Do you know the right-hand-rule for cross-products?
47. Do you know the Latin name (genus and species) for anything? (fruit fly,
human being)
48. Can you understand the owner's manual for electronic equipment?
49. Can you understand the electronic schematic for electronic equipment?
50. Do you know what a "reverse polish notation" calculator is?
51. Can you name the first nine elements of the periodic table in order?
52. Can you translate more than half the chemical symbols into the name of the
element they represent?
53. Do you know the wavelengths in the visible spectrum?
54. Are you bilingual?
55. ...and not an immigrant or child of an immigrant?
56. Can you briefly outline the biological process that occur due to alcohol
when it is consumed by a human?
57. ...while drunk?
58. Do you know how your car's engine works?
59. Have you ever interpolated?
60. Have you ever extrapolated?
61. Do you know the difference between interpolation and extrapolation?
62. Have you ever integrated numerically?
63. ...and known the result ahead of time?
64. ...and complained about how slow the computer was?
65. Have you ever seen or utilized the spherical harmonic functions?
66. ...and found them aesthetically pleasing?
67. Do you know most of the words to "The Lumberjack Song" by Monty
Python?
68. Do you own an encyclopedia?
69. Have you ever read an encyclopedia entry that you weren't researching?
70. Have you ever wanted to know something for no apparent reason?
71. Have you ever been laughed at for wanting to know something?
72. Can you program the time on a VCR?
73. Has anyone ever asked you to program their VCR time for them?
74. Have you ever used the word "asymptotic"?
75. Have you ever referred to something as an L.E.D.?
76. Have you ever referred to a ruler as a "straight-edge"?
77. Have you ever said "quartz crystal"?
78. Have you ever called something a "print out" or "hard
copy"?
79. Have you ever referred to a curve/object as hyperbolic, parabolic, etc.?
80. Do you feel your vocabulary is larger than most people's?
81. Is your IQ greater than your weight?
Answer YES if you know what the following acronyms stand for. Note: it may be
useful to actually state out loud what you think the acronym stands for as your
interpretation may be wrong or not the nerdy one being sought after.
82. ...RADAR?
83. ...MODEM?
84. ...RAM?
85. ...DNA?
86. ...ATP?
87. ...NADP?
88. ...CRT?
89. ...CRC?
90. ...STP?
91. ...NORAD?
92. ...NASA?
93. ...MUD?
94. ...LED?
95. ...AI?
96. ...LASER?
97. ...RPG?
98. ...TLA?
99. ...SCUBA?
100. ...WYSIWYG?
101. ...DAT?
102. ...PINE?
103. ...JOVE?
104. Did you not know one of the above, but took a wild guess at in anyway?
105. Have you ever created an acronym in order to simplify your writing?
The next few questions deal with physical constants. Mark yes for any that you
can give the value (2 or more significant digits) for. Knowledge of the units
attached is NOT necessary, just the numeric portion.
106. gravitational constant? (G)
107. earth's gravity near the surface? (g)
108. mass of an electron?
109. charge of an electron?
110. speed of light in vacuum?
111. speed of sound at STP?
112. Planck's constant? (h or h-bar)
113. permittivity of free space? (epsilon naught)
114. permeability of free space? (mu naught)
115. Avogadro's number?
116. molar gas constant?
117. pi? (exception: must know more than 3 digits)
118. Mark this true if you are presently the person knowing the most digits of
pi in the room.
119. e? (exception: must know more than 3 digits)
Can you give the conversion factor between... (2 or more sig. digits)
120. ...centimeters and inches?
121. ...kilometers and miles?
122. ...joules and electron-volts?
123. ...atomic mass units and kilograms?
124. ...Celsius and Kelvin?
125. ...Celsius and Fahrenheit?
126. ...meters and Astronomical Units (AU)?
127. ...AU and light years?
128. ...light years and parsecs?
129. If, while answering any question in this section, you said someone else's
answer was wrong and were right, mark this question true. (e.g. "you nob!
Pi isn't 3.1425. It's 3.1415!")
130. If while answering any question in this section, you checked a reference
book to find out the correct answer, mark this question true. (e.g.
"AARRGGH! What's that last R in radar stand for?")
SECTION 3: Computers
131. Have you ever used a computer?
132. ...for more than 4 hours continuously?
133. ...for more than 8 hours continuously?
134. ...past 4 a.m.?
135. ...as a source of income?
136. ...on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the same weekend?
137. ...with someone you were physically attracted toward?
138. ...for money?
139. ...in the last 24 hours?
140. ...in the last half hour?
141. ...as a source of entertainment? (computer game)
142. ...in the last three months?
143. ...in the last three weeks?
144. Have you ever programmed a computer?
145. ...to write a computer game?
146. ...to write a computer virus?
147. ...to write a shell script?
148. Do you still own any computer with less than 512k of RAM? (e.g. Commodore
64, Apple II +/e/c, TRS 80, ad infinitum)
149. ...that is still in working condition?
150. ...and still buy software for it?
151. Do you own more than one computer with at least a megabyte of RAM?
152. Do you own any computer which would be classified as a work station?
153. Have you ever taken your computer on vacation with you?
154. Have you ever lost sleep over a computer game?
Have you ever used a ...
155. mouse?
156. hard disk drive?
157. light-pen?
158. computer with a touch sensitive monitor?
159. track-ball?
160. ...for something other than a video game?
161. Devorak keyboard? (as opposed to QWERTY)
162. modem?
163. Have you ever seen a magnetic tape reel?
164. Have you ever mounted a magnetic tape reel?
165. Have you ever seen a computer punch card?
166. Have you ever programmed using punch cards?
167. Are you still capable of programming with punch cards?
168. Do you have any "pirated" software? (i.e. second-hand
copywritten)
169. Do you have any "public-domain" software?
170. Do you have any "shareware"? (i.e. software author requests a
fee be sent to them for its use)
171. Do you currently own a modem capable of 14.4kbs or faster?
172. Do you still own any modem whose top speed is 300 baud or less?
173. Have you ever telnet'ed from one computer system to another?
174. ...to gain access to a system you had no authorization on?
175. ...to call a government computer? (NASA, FBI, NORAD, etc.)
176. ...to call a research institution? (CERN, JPL, etc.)
177. ...where the other machine was outside of your native country?
178. Do you have an electronic mail address?
179. ...more than one e-mail address?
180. Have you ever sent e-mail?
181. ...to yourself?
182. ...to someone who was in the same room as you at the time?
183. ...with a .sig file appended to the end of it?
184. ...in the last week?
185. Have you ever set up and run a mailing list for e-mail?
186. Do you receive more e-mail than you send?
187. Have you ever FTP'd?
188. ...anonymously?
189. Have you ever uploaded?
190. Have you ever downloaded?
191. Have you ever multi-tasked? (ran 2+ applications concurrently)
192. Have you ever set up a kill file?
193. ...that does more than simply 'kill'?
194. Do you have a .plan or similar file for when people finger you?
195. Have you set up a login.com or similar file for auto-execution on logging
unto a computer system? (autoexec.bat, login.com...)
196. Do you use alias/batch commands to standardize your OS? (e.g. alias dir
ls)
197. Have you ever read the postings on USENET?
198. ...in the last week?
199. Have you posted to USENET?
200. ...and gotten a response?
201. ...from someone you knew outside of the net?
202. ...and gotten a "flame"?
Have you ever posted to...
203. ...a science fiction news group? (rec.arts.sf)
204. ...a sex news group? (alt.sex)
205. ...talk.bizarre?
206. ...rec.humor?
207. ...a sci. or science-related news group?
208. Have you ever written a FAQ for a USENET news group?
209. Have you ever run a vote for a USENET news group?
210. Have you ever moderated a USENET news group?
211. Have you played any MUD's, MUSH's or other multi-user games?
212. ...in the last week?
213. ...today?
214. Do you consistently play more than one MUD, MUSH, etc.?
215. Are you a "wizard/implementor/immortal" on any MUD's, MUSH's,
etc.?
216. Do you have GIF files as wallpaper?
217. Is part of your desk space devoted to your computer?
218. Have you ever built a computer?
219. ...from chips?
220. Do you have a favorite computer language?
221. ...that you've had to defend in verbal debate?
Which of the following computer languages do you know...
222. ...BASIC?
223. ...PASCAL?
224. ...FORTRAN?
225. ...assembly language?
226. ...C?
227. Have you ever forgotten a person's name but not their e-mail address?
228. Do you know more computer addresses than street addresses?
229. Do you tend to remember the IP numbers instead of the alpha address for
computer sites? (128.253.232.63 vs. crux3.cit.cornell.edu)
230. Do you find that you type more often than you write longhand?
231. Have you ever forgotten how to write longhand?
232. Have you ever used computer symbology elsewhere? (goto, *, etc.)
233. Have you ever spoken internet-ese? (btw, imho, :), brb, afk)
234. Have you ever blown off doing something you were supposed to do in order
to work on the computer?
235. Have you ever felt jealous of someone merely because they owned a better
computer system than you?
SECTION 4: Possessions
236. Do you frequently find yourself with more plugs than outlets?
237. Do you currently own a can of WD-40?
238. Do you currently own a can of compressed air?
239. Do you have a personal copy of any version of the nerdity test?
240. ...in space allocated to you on a computer system?
241. Have you ever owned a light saber (Star Wars)?
242. ...that wasn't made of plastic?
243. Do you own an 8-track tape player or any 8-track tapes?
244. Do you own an almanac? (World, Farmer's)
245. Do you own an atlas?
246. Do you own a globe?
247. ...and have it on display? (on a desk, bookshelf...)
248. ...that has bumps corresponding to mountain ranges?
249. ...that lights up?
250. Do you own any "maps of the ancient world"?
251. ...and have them on display?
252. Do you have any "mathematical" artwork? (Escher, fractals)
253. Have you ever faxed something?
254. Have you ever received a fax?
255. Do you own a cellular phone? (car phone)
256. Do you own a non-standard calculator? (scientific, programmable)
257. Do you own a "reverse polish notation" calculator?
258. Do you own a slide rule?
259. ...and know how to use it?
260. Other than a thermometer, do you own any meteorological equipment?
261. Do you own any orienteering equipment? (compass, sextant, etc.)
262. Do you own a pencil case?
263. Do you own any mechanical pencil?
264. ...and have refills for it?
265. Do you own an electric pencil sharpener?
266. Do you own a laboratory notebook?
267. Do you own any graph paper? (quad-ruled)
268. Do you own any log or semi-log paper?
269. Do you own a table of integrals?
270. Have you ever stolen scientific (radiation, biohazard) warnings for
personal use?
SECTION 5: Leisure Time
271. Have you ever taken something apart?
272. ...and put it back together correctly?
273. ...without worrying about voiding the warranty?
274. Do friends and/or family ask you to fix things?
275. Do friends and/or family ask to borrow your tools?
276. ...because you are the only person they know who OWNS that tool?
277. Have you ever put something together without reference to the assembly
instructions?
278. Have you ever bought something primarily for the pleasure of taking it
apart to "see how it works"?
279. Have you ever rewired something?
280. Have you ever played a non-sexual role-playing game? (D&D)
281. ...since leaving high school?
282. Have you ever been to a RPG convention? (GenCON, etc.)
283. ...in the last six months?
284. Have you ever taken a "self help" test?
285. Do you derive perverse pleasure from self-help tests?
286. Do you ever lord your scores on such tests over people around you?
287. Have you ever dissected something?
288. ...while not involved in a biology class?
289. Do you play chess?
290. Were you ever on a chess team?
291. ...on a math team?
292. ...on a debate team?
293. ...on a "trivia" team? (college bowl, JEOPARDY)
294. ...the captain for any of the teams listed above?
295. ...the coach for any of the teams listed above?
296. Did you ever join one of the above teams for the purpose of picking up
members of the opposite sex?
297. Were you ever in a science fair?
298. ...that you placed in the top three?
299. Are you a member of Mensa?
300. Have you ever made a technical joke?
301. ...in the last week?
302. ...that no one around you understood?
303. ...and you found yourself trying to explain it?
304. ...that everyone around you understood?
305. ...but their reason for laughing was not yours?
SECTION 6: Leisure Time - Nerd Toys
306. Have you ever bought something from Radio Shack?
307. Do you know what an oscilloscope does?
308. Have you ever used an oscilloscope?
309. Do you own an oscilloscope?
310. Have you ever used a microscope?
311. Do you own a microscope?
312. Have you ever used a telescope?
313. ...not for peering through someone's bedroom window?
314. Do you own a voltmeter?
315. Do you own any remote controlled vehicles?
316. Do you own a CB radio?
317. Have you ever had an amateur radio license?
318. Do you still have an amateur radio license?
319. Have you ever had an extra-class amateur radio license?
320. Have you ever used a chemistry set?
321. ...since the age of 13?
322. Have you ever used a rare earth element?
323. Do you own a slinky?
324. Does a slinky make you think about oscillations?
325. Do you own a Rubik's cube?
326. Are you able to solve Rubik's Cube?
327. ...without using the book?
328. ...in less than two minutes?
329. Have you ever tried to calculate the number of possible permutations a
Rubik's Cube can have?
SECTION 7: Leisure Time - TV and Movies
330. Do you watch more than 4 hours of TV on any given day of the week?
331. Can you name more than 5 shows on PBS? (inc.:A&E, Discovery Channel)
332. Have you ever watched a PBS documentary?
333. ...voluntarily?
334. ...in the last three weeks?
335. Have you ever watched C-Span for more than 5 minutes?
Have you ever watched a complete episode of...
336. ...Dr. Who?
337. ...Battlestar Galactica?
338. ...Space: 1999?
339. ...Starblazers? (cartoon about the WWII carrier flying through space)
Can you whistle, hum, sing or snap the theme songs to...
340. ...Gilligan's Island?
341. ...Flintstones?
342. ...The Brady Bunch?
343. ...The Jetson's?
344. ...The Addam's Family?
344. ...Dobbie Gillis?
346. ...I Dream of Genie?
347. Have you ever seen any of the "Revenge of The Nerd" movies more
than once?
348. Have you seen all of the Star Wars movies?
349. ...in one 24 hour period?
350. Have you ever watched something and stated "that's physically
impossible" (due to Newton's
laws, etc.)?
SECTION 8: Leisure Time - Books and Magazines
Have you ever read anything by...
351. ...Douglas Adams?
352. ...Isaac Asimov?
353. ...Arthur C. Clarke?
354. ...Robert H. Heinlein?
355. ...Piers Anthony?
356. ...J.R.R. Tolkein?
357. ...TSR Hobbies? (i.e. a novel published by the D&D people)
358. ...Richard Feynman? (e.g. his lectures, etc.)
359. ...Stephen Hawkings?
360. ...Carl Sagan?
361. Have you ever read -Cultural-Literacy- or any other book on "what
you, as an intelligent person, should know"?
362. Have you ever read -Innumeracy- or any other book about mathematics made
popular?
363. Do you read books on a daily basis?
364. Have you finished a book in the last week?
365. Have you finished more than one book in the last week?
366. Have you ever bought a book of crossword puzzles/logic problems?
367. Do you read archaic computer manuals for pleasure?
Do you have magazine subscriptions to...
368. ...Popular Mechanics?
369. ...Popular Science?
370. ...Omni?
371. ...Scientific America?
372. ...any computer oriented magazine? (MacWorld, PCWorld, etc.)
373. ...Computer Gaming World or other "video game" magazine?
374. ...Discover?
375. ...any medical journals? (New England
Journal of Medicine)
376. ...any science periodicals?
377. ...National Geographic?
378. ...any comic book or "graphic novel"? (X-Men, Superman, Heavy
Metal)
SECTION 9: Star Trek
379. Can you name or discuss the plots of more than 10 Star Trek episodes?
380. Have you seen all of the Star Trek films?
381. ...in one 48 hour period?
382. Do you refer to the various "Treks" as "TOS" (The
Original Series), "TNG" (The Next Generation) and "DS9"
(Deep Space 9) or similar?
383. Have you ever argued with someone over which "Trek" is better?
384. Have you ever argued over who was a better commander of the Enterprise?
385. Have you ever felt the urge to learn the Klingon language?
386. Have you ever been to a trek convention?
387. ...in the last six months?
388. Have you ever owned a pair of Spock ears (Star Trek)?
389. ...and worn them in public?
SECTION 10: Clothing and Apparel
390. Are your socks unmatched?
391. Do you own a digital watch?
392. ...that plays music?
393. ...that's currently set to chime on the hour?
394. ...that has a calculator built in?
395. Do you own a pocket protector?
396. ...and are you wearing it?
397. Do you have acne?
398. Do you have greasy hair?
399. ...without realizing it?
400. Do you own any clothing with scientific knowledge printed on it? (e.g.
t-shirts with Maxwell's equations)
401. ...which you still wear from time to time?
402. Have you ever worn a radiation film badge?
403. ...while not in the laboratory?
404. ...and described what it was to someone, who then backed away in fear?
405. Are your pants too short?
406. Does your underwear have your name in it?
407. Is your outfit uncoordinated? (have someone else evaluate this)
408. Have you ever worn a button-down shirt and left the tails hanging out?
409. Have you ever bought similar looking shirts/pants in order to save time
when dressing because "everything goes together"?
410. Do you wear glasses?
411. ...held together by adhesives? (tape, glue, boogers)
412. Is your vision worse than 20/40? (in either eye)
413. Is your vision worse than 20/80? (in either eye)
414. Do your glasses weigh more than one pound?
SECTION 11: Personality and Lifestyle
415. Have you ever slept an inverted day? (sleep at dawn, wake at dusk)
416. ...for more than one day in a row?
417. Have you ever slept round the clock? (24 continuous hours in bed)
Which of the following have you used to prevent sleep?
418. ...Caffeine?
419. ...exercise?
420. ...Vivarin?
421. ...NoDoz?
422. ...something you made in chem. lab?
423. ...something you found in chem. lab?
424. Have you worked for an engineering or manufacturing firm?
425. ...in the last 3 months?
426. ...and gotten credit at a school for doing so?
427. Have you worked in a research lab?
428. ...and been more interested in the work than the pay?
429. Have you ever visited a power plant? (Hoover Dam, nuclear plant, etc.)
430. ...and not been bored?
431. Are you socially inept?
432. Was the last naked person you saw a hi-res computer scan?
433. Do you talk to yourself?
434. ...when other people are around?
435. Do you talk to imaginary people?
436. ...do they talk back?
437. ...do they seem to be more/less intelligent than you?
438. Do you have a tough time remembering people's names?
439. ...but no trouble with their numeric data? (phone#, SS#)
440. Have you ever played mathematical games with other numbers you see to pass
the time? (square/cube root, prime factors of phone#)
441. Do you see everyday situations as representing mathematical concepts?
442. Do you look at quantitative factors when participating in social events?
(ex: choosing drinks by % alcohol rather than taste)
443. Mark this true if you did NOT go to your senior prom.
444. Did you go stag to your Senior Prom?
445. Have you ever found a grammatical error in a published book?
446. Have you ever quoted a piece of literature from memory? (poem, quote)
447. Have you ever eaten pizza cold?
448. ...do you like it that way?
449. ...because you're too lazy to reheat it?
450. Have you ever gotten pizza delivered to the lab/office/science building?
451. Is any leftover delivery food currently residing in your refrigerator?
452. ...that's been there so long, you can't remember ordering it?
453. ...that's been there so long, it's become mobile/sentient?
454. Is any food in your refrigerator moldy?
455. Have you ever commented on the lack of intellectual ability found in a
"JEOPARDY" contestant?
456. Have you ever contemplated the meaning of life/existence of God?
457. ...while not drunk?
458. ...while alone?
459. Have you ever thought about extra dimensions/parallel universes?
460. ...and discussed their possibilities with others?
461. Have you come to any conclusions about UFO's/life on other planets?
462. ...and used Time-Life's "Mysteries of the Unknown" series as a
factual reference to support your claim?
463. Have you ever commented: "If I drive fast enough at the red light,
it'll appear green."
464. Have you ever found yourself discussing one of the popular scientific
theories of the day with someone you just met? (cold fusion)
465. ...did they bring it up because they thought you incapable of talking
about non-technical topics?
466. Have you ever taken part in an experiment to prove/disprove one of the
popular scientific theories of the day? (cold fusion, big bang)
467. Have you ever thought about reviving the dead? (Frankenstein)
468. ...for sexual purposes?
469. ...and had some degree of success?
470. ...but been laughed at by a leading medical institution?
471. Have you ever given an inanimate object a name? (inc.: stuffed animal)
472. Was the object something electronic or mechanical?
473. Did the object also have a "personality"?
474. Have you ever compared and contrasted two scientists? (Einstein vs. Newton,
etc.)
475. Have you ever argued with someone else over which of two scientists was
better?
476. Have you ever argued with someone over which of two computer types/OS's is
better? (Macintosh vs. IBM, UNIX vs. VMS)
477. Have you ever laughed out loud at a joke written in a serious scientific
paper? (Feynman's lectures, textbook)
478. Has anyone ever called you a geek/nerd?
479. ...in the last two weeks?
480. ...for doing/saying something you knew to be geeky?
481. Have you ever intentionally done something that you consider geeky?
482. ...in the last month?
483. ...today?
SECTION 12: The Nerd Test
484. Are you taking this test alone?
485. Are you currently reading this test on a computer screen?
486. Are you planning to double-check your answers to this test?
487. Do you feel the need (or are you currently using) a calculator to score
the test?
488. Are you computing your score in scientific notation?
489. Have you contemplated writing a computer program that would ask and/or
tabulate questions found on this test?
490. Are you currently scoring this test in reverse? (i.e. Assuming 100% nerd
and deducting for each 'no'?)
491. Have you come across copies of this test from two separate sources?
492. If you are still reading this test, do you really need a test score to
prove you are a nerd?
493. Is your nerdity test score higher than your purity test score?
494. Did you feel offended by any of the questions on this test?
495. Did you resort to lying in order to raise your score?
496. Did you resort to lying in order to lower your score?
497. Are you currently competing with someone else for the highest score on
this test (or were contemplating it)?
498. ...did you come up second best and challenge them to a rematch?
499. Have you asked for a technical clarification of anything on this test?
500. Have you ever thought of a question that belongs on this test?
Please put your pencils down. That's it! Hope you enjoyed it!
To analyze your Nerdity Quotient, divide your total number of
"yes/true" responses by the total number of questions and compare to
this list.
Ranking:
0 - 20 Nerd-wannabe
21 - 30 Nerd-in-Training
31 - 35 Closet nerd
36 - 40 You dress like people in Walmart ads
41 - 45 You refuse to live anywhere without pizza delivery service
46 - 50 Your social life needs some serious help
51 - 55 YOU need some serious help
56 - 60 You are on first name basis with Radio Shack employees
61 - 65 Your best friend is a microchip
66 - 70 Bill Gates and E. Gary Gygax are your heroes
71 - 75 You own more surge protectors than cooking utensils
76 - 80 "Revenge of the Nerds" poster-child
81 - 85 Hoping to invent Warp Field Theory or transporter technology
86 - 90 Desperately seeking cybernetic interface implanted in your brain
91 - 99 Move over, Einstein
100 Hail, O Nerd Master, virgin sliderulers I sacrifice unto you
Sunday, March 31, 2013
IN THIS TIMES ECONOMY JOKES ARE POPULAR
Economics is the
only field in which two people can get a Nobel Prize for saying exactly the
opposite thing.
Heard at the Wharton School.
Man walking along a road in the
countryside comes across a shepherd and a huge flock of sheep. Tells the shepherd,
"I will bet you $100 against one of your sheep that I can tell you the
exact number in this flock." The shepherd thinks it over; it's a big flock
so he takes the bet. "973," says the man. The shepherd is astonished,
because that is exactly right. Says "OK, I'm a man of my word, take an
animal." Man picks one up and begins to walk away. "Wait," cries the shepherd, "Let me have a chance to get even. Double or nothing that I can guess your exact occupation." Man says sure. "You are an economist for a government think tank," says the shepherd. "Amazing!" responds the man, "You are exactly right! But tell me, how did you deduce that?"
"Well," says the shepherd, "put down my dog and I will tell you."
A mathematician,
an accountant and an economist apply for the same job.
The interviewer calls in the
mathematician and asks "What do two plus two equal?" The
mathematician replies "Four." The interviewer asks "Four,
exactly?" The mathematician looks at the interviewer incredulously and
says "Yes, four, exactly." Then the interviewer calls in the accountant and asks the same question "What do two plus two equal?" The accountant says "On average, four - give or take ten percent, but on average, four."
Then the interviewer calls in the economist and poses the same question "What do two plus two equal?" The economist gets up, locks the door, closes the shade, sits down next to the interviewer and says "What do you want it to equal?"
TOP 10 REASONS
TO STUDY ECONOMICS
2. Economists can supply it on demand.
3. You can talk about money without every having to make any.
4. You get to say "trickle down" with a straight face.
5. Mick Jagger and Arnold Schwarzenegger both studied economics and look how they turned out.
6. When you are in the unemployment line, at least you will know why you are there.
7. If you rearrange the letters in "ECONOMICS", you get "COMIC NOSE".
8. Although ethics teaches that virtue is its own reward, in economics we get taught that reward is its own virtue.
9. When you get drunk, you can tell everyone that you are just researching the law of diminishing marginal utility.
10. When you call 1-900-LUV-ECON and get Kandi Keynes, you will have something to talk about.
ECONOMISTS do it
at bliss point
ECONOMISTS do it cyclically
ECONOMISTS do it in an Edgeworth Box
ECONOMISTS do it on demand
ECONOMISTS do it risk-free (in reference to the risk-free interest rate)
ECONOMISTS do it with a dual
ECONOMISTS do it with an atomistic competitor
ECONOMISTS do it with crystal balls
ECONOMISTS do it with interest
ECONOMISTS do it cyclically
ECONOMISTS do it in an Edgeworth Box
ECONOMISTS do it on demand
ECONOMISTS do it risk-free (in reference to the risk-free interest rate)
ECONOMISTS do it with a dual
ECONOMISTS do it with an atomistic competitor
ECONOMISTS do it with crystal balls
ECONOMISTS do it with interest
"Economists
do it with models"
Heard at the LSE.
Heard at the LSE.
Econometricians
do it if they can identify it.
Applied econometricians do it even if they can't.
Applied econometricians do it even if they can't.
Economists do it
with Slutsky matrices.
Economists do it
discretely AND continuously.
"Econometricians
do it with dummies"?
Morry Adelman at
MIT claims that he heard this at Shell long ago:
"A planner is a gentle man,
with neither sword nor pistol.
He walks along most daintily,
because his balls are crystal."
"A planner is a gentle man,
with neither sword nor pistol.
He walks along most daintily,
because his balls are crystal."
An economist is
a trained professional paid to guess wrong about the economy. An econometrician
is a trained professional paid to use computers to guess wrong about the
economy.
Talk is cheap.
Supply exceeds Demand.
Bentley's second
Law of Economics: The only thing more dangerous than an economist is an amateur
economist!
Berta's Fundamental Law of
Economic Rents.. "The only thing more dangerous than an amateur economist
is a professional economist."
A true story:
"I heard this from one of my professors. To protect him, no names will be revealed. This professor was about to get married. He went to the jewelers to get a wedding ring for his fiancee. The jeweler told him that he can have the inside of the ring engraved with the name of his fiancee for an additional $20 (remember, this was a LONG time ago). He said, "But that will reduce the resale value!" The jeweler was aghast. He said, "How can you say such a thing. You are a butcher!" "No," replied the professor, "I am an economist"."
An economic
forecaster was known to have an horseshoe prominently displayed above the door
frame of his office. Asked what it was for, he replied that it was a good luck
charm that helped his forecasts. But do you believe in that superstition? he
was asked, and he said, "Of course not!" But then why do you keep it?
"Well," he said, "it works whether you believe in it or
not."
The story is actually told
about a non-economist, Danish Nobel prize winner Niels Bohr.
Economics has
gotten so rigorous we've all got rigor mortis.
Presumably said by Kenneth Boulding
A possible correction by
Mike: Kenneth Boulding said, "Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately,
it also brought mortis." Presumably said by Kenneth Boulding
Economist
related joke: Definition: Policy Analyst is someone unethical enough to be a
lawyer, impractical enough to be a theologian, and pedantic enough to be an
economist.
There is one
joke opportunity in Robert Kuttner, The Poverty of Economics, The Atlantic
Monthly, Feb 1985, p. 79, which says: "George Stigler Nobel laureate and a
leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in
the other social sciences, sociology, psychology, history, etc. "Don't
worry", Stigler said, "they have already have a Nobel Prize in
...Literature"
An economist was
standing at the shore of a large lake, surf-casting. It was the middle of
winter, and the lake was completely frozen over, but this didn't seem to bother
the economist, who stood there patiently casting his lure out across the ice,
slowly reeling it in again, then repeating the process.
A mathematical economist
came sailing by on an ice boat, and pulled to the shore beside the surf-fishing
economist to scoff. "You'll never catch any fish that way," said the
mathematical economist. "Jump on my ice-boat and we'll go
trawling."
Three
econometricians went out hunting, and came across a large deer. The first
econometrician fired, but missed, by a meter to the left. The second
econometrician fired, but also missed, by a meter to the right. The third
econometrician didn't fire, but shouted in triumph, "We got it! We
got it!"
A mathematician,
a theoretical economist and an econometrician are asked to find a black cat (who
doesn't really exist) in a closed room with the lights off:
- The mathematician gets crazy trying to find a black cat that doesn't exist inside the darkened room and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
- The theoretical economist is unable to catch the black cat that doesn't exist inside the darkened room, but exits the room proudly proclaiming that he can construct a model to describe all his movements with extreme accuracy.
- The econometrician walks securely into the darkened room, spend one hour looking for the black cat that doesn't exits and shouts from inside the room that he has it catched by the neck."
- The mathematician gets crazy trying to find a black cat that doesn't exist inside the darkened room and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
- The theoretical economist is unable to catch the black cat that doesn't exist inside the darkened room, but exits the room proudly proclaiming that he can construct a model to describe all his movements with extreme accuracy.
- The econometrician walks securely into the darkened room, spend one hour looking for the black cat that doesn't exits and shouts from inside the room that he has it catched by the neck."
True story. I'm
riding up the elevator at the Boston ASSA meetings a few years back. In the
car with me is a woman who works in the hotel. I ask her if economists are
really as dull a bunch as they're made out to be. She responds that she used to
be stationed at the NYC branch of the chain when the meetings were held there
and that even the hookers had taken the week off.
Practice economy
at any cost.
from "The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, Chapter 16.
Arthur awoke to the sound of
argument and went to the bridge. Ford was waving his arms about. "You're
crazy Zaphod," he was saying, "Magrathea is a myth a fairy story,
it's what parents tell their kids about at night if they want them to grow up
to be economists, it's..."
from the preface
to Paul Krugman's book, "Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense
in the Age of Diminished Expectations" (1994, page xi): An Indian-born
economist once explained his personal theory of reincarnation to his graduate
economics class. "If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist,"
he said, "you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist,
you are reborn as a sociologist."
When two
economists are out for a stroll together, how do you identify the UofC
economist? He's the one walking randomly.
Heard at the
workshop of evolutionary economists at IIASA:
Q: How has French revolution
affected world economic growth? A: Too early to say.
True story: I
was standing with Ken Arrow by a bank of elevators on the ground floor of
William James Hall at Harvard. Three elevators passed us on our way to the
basement. I foolishly said "I wonder why everybody in the basement wants
to go upstairs." He responded, almost instantly: "You're confusing
supply with demand."
Curt Monash
Curt Monash
Economist poem
If you do some acrobatics with a little mathematics
it will take you far along.
If your idea's not defensible
don't make it comprehensible
or folks will find you out,
and your work will draw attention
if you only fail to mention
what the whole thing is about.
Your must talk of GNP
and of elasticity
of rates of substitution
and undeterminate solution
and oligonopopsony.
Q. What do
economists and computers have in common ??
A. You need to punch information into both of them.
A. You need to punch information into both of them.
Why does
Treasury only have 10 minutes for morning tea ??
A. If they had any longer, they would need to re-train all the economists.
A. If they had any longer, they would need to re-train all the economists.
Two economists
were walking down the street when they noticed two women yelling across the
street at each other from their apartment windows.
Of course they will never come to
agreement, stated the first economist. And why is that, inquired his companion,
Why, of course, because they are arguing from different premises.
Here's couple of
more general jokes.
A civil engineer, a chemist and
an economist are traveling in the countryside. Weary, they stop at a small country
inn. "I only have two rooms, so one of you will have to sleep in the
barn," the innkeeper says. The civil engineer volunteers to sleep in the
barn, goes outside, and the others go to bed. In a short time they're awakened
by a knock. It's the engineer, who says, "There's a cow in that barn. I'm
a Hindu, and it would offend my beliefs to sleep next to a sacred animal."
The chemist says that, OK, he'll sleep in the barn. The others go back to bed,
but soon are awakened by another knock. It's the chemist who says,
"There's a pig in that barn. I'm Jewish, and cannot sleep next to an
unclean animal." So the economist is sent to the barn. It's getting late,
the others are very tired and soon fall asleep. But they're awakened by an even
louder knocking. They open the door and are surprised by what they see: It's
the cow and the pig! Three economists and three mathematicians were going for a trip by train. Before the journey, the mathematicians bought 3 tickets but economists only bought one. The mathematicians were glad their stupid colleagues were going to pay a fine. However, when the conductor was approaching their compartment, all three economists went to the nearest toilet. The conductor, noticing that somebody was in the toilet, knocked on the door. In reply he saw a hand with one ticket. He checked it and the economists saved 2/3 of the ticket price.
The next day, the mathematicians decided to use the same strategy- they bought only one ticket, but economists did not buy tickets at all! When the mathematicians saw the conductor, they hid in the toilet, and when they heard knocking they handed in the ticket. They did not get it back.
Why? The economists took it and went to the other toilet.
A party of economists was climbing in the Alps . After several hours they became hopelessly lost. One of them studied the map for some time, turning it up and down, sighting on distant landmarks, consulting his compass, and finally the sun.
Finally he said, ' OK see that big mountain over there?'
'Yes', answered the others eagerly.
'Well, according to the map, we're standing on top of it.'
Did you hear of
the economist who dove into his swimming pool and broke his neck?
He forgot to seasonally adjust
his pool.
If all the
economists were laid end to end they would be an orgy, of mathematics.
A wealthy labor
economist had an urge to have grandchildren. He had two daughters and two sons
and none of them had gratified his desire for a grandchild. At the annual
family gathering on Thanksgiving Day, he chided them gently to bless his old
age with their progeny. "But I haven't given up hope," he said,
"Yesterday I went to the bank and set up a one hundred thousand dollar
trust fund to be given to the first grandchild that I have. Now we will all bow
our heads while I say a prayer of thanks." When he looked up, he and his
wife were the only ones at the table.
NATURAL RATE OF
UNEMPLOYMENT
Newlan's Truism: An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
Newlan's Truism: An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
Q Why did the
market economist cross the road?
A To reach the consensus forecast.
A To reach the consensus forecast.
Q: What does an
economist use when calculating constant-dollar estimates?
A: Deflator mouse
A: Deflator mouse
these were
created by Pat Marren 2/14/96
Subject: TOP TEN ECONOMIST
VALENTINES 10. YOU RAISE MY INTEREST RATE THIRTY BASIS POINTS WITHOUT A CORRESPONDING DROPOFF IN CONSUMER ENTHUSIASM
9. DESPITE A DECADE OF INFLATION, I STILL DIG YOUR SUPPLY CURVE
8. WHAT DO YOU SAY WE REMEASURE OUR CROSS-ELASTICITY
7. YOU BRING THE BUTTER, I'LL BRING THE GUN
6. LET'S RAISE HOUSING STARTS TOGETHER
5. FURTHER STIMULUS COULD RESULT IN UNCONTROLLED EXPANSION
4. TELL ME WHETHER MY EXPECTATIONS ARE RATIONAL
3. LET'S ASSUME A RITZY HOTEL ROOM AND A BOTTLE OF DOM
2. YOU STOKE THE ANIMAL SPIRITS OF MY MARKET
1. A LOAF OF BREAD, A JUG OF WINE, AND THOU BESIDE ME WATCHING RUKEYSER
When Albert
Einstein died, he met three New Zealanders in the queue outside the Pearly
Gates. To pass the time, he asked what were their IQs. The first replied 190.
"Wonderful," exclaimed Einstein. "We can discuss the
contribution made by Ernest Rutherford to atomic physics and my theory of
general relativity". The second answered 150. "Good," said
Einstein. "I look forward to discussing the role of New Zealand's nuclear-free legislation in the quest
for world peace". The third New Zealander mumbled 50. Einstein paused, and
then asked, "So what is your forecast for the budget deficit next
year?" (Adapted from Economist June 13th 1992,
p. 71).
Two men are
flying in a captive balloon. The wind is ugly and they come away from their
course and they have no idea where they are. So they go down to 20 m above ground and ask a passing
wanderer. "Could you tell us where we are?"
"You are in a balloon."
So the one pilot to the other:
"The answer is perfectly right and absolutely useless. The man must be an economist"
"Then you must be businessmen", answers the man.
"That's right! How did you know?"
"You have such a good view from where you are and yet you don't know where you are!"
Light bulb jokes
are always in...
Q: How many Chicago School economists does it take to change a
light bulb? A: None. If the light bulb needed changing the market would have already done it.
Q: How many
mainstream economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A1: Two. One to assume the
existence of ladder and one to change the bulb. A2: Two. One to assume the existence of latter and one to change the bulb.
Q: How many
neo-classical economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: It depends on the wage rate.
A: It depends on the wage rate.
Q: How many
conservative economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A1: None. The darkness will cause
the light bulb to change by itself. A2: None. If it really needed changing, market forces would have caused it to happen.
A3: None. If the government would just leave it alone, it would screw itself in.
A4. None. "There is no need to change the light bulb. All the conditions for illumination are in place.
A5. None, because, look! It's getting brighter! It's definitely getting brighter !!!
A5. None; they're all waiting for the unseen hand of the market to correct the lighting disequilibrium.
The above light bulb jokes were mostly stolen from an article in _The_Wharton_Journal_, Feb. 21, 1994, by Selena Maranjian, who undoubtedly pilfered the humor from someone else. Selena also suggested (for you B-school types):
Q: How many Wharton MBAs does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one, if you hire me. I can actually change the light bulb by myself. As you can see from my resume, I've had extensive experience changing light bulbs in my previous positions. I've also been named to the Wharton Light Bulb list, and am presently a teaching assistant for Light Bulb Management 666. My only weakness is that I'm compulsive about changing light bulbs in my spare time.
Q: How many
B-school doctoral students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: I'm writing my dissertation on that topic; I should have an answer for you in about 5 years.
A: I'm writing my dissertation on that topic; I should have an answer for you in about 5 years.
Q: How many
investors does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None - the market has already discounted the change.
The Economist A: None - the market has already discounted the change.
Q:How many
Keynesian economists does it takes to change a light bulb?
A:All. Because then you will
generate employment, more consumption, dislocating the AD (agg. demand) to the
right,...
Q: How many
Trotskyists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. Smash it!
A: None. Smash it!
Q; How many
central bank economists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Just one -- he holds the lightbulb and the whole earth revolves around him.
A: Just one -- he holds the lightbulb and the whole earth revolves around him.
Economists do it with models
Q: How many
marxists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: None - the bulb contains within it the seeds of its own revolution.
A: None - the bulb contains within it the seeds of its own revolution.
It's not easy
being an economist. How would you like to go through life pretending you knew
what M1 was all about?
An elderly economics
professor is standing at the shallow end of the campus pool. A Coed is standing
at the deep end taking pictures. She suddenly drops the camera into the pool.
Then she motions for the professor to come to her. He goes and she asks him to
retrieve the camera. He agrees and dives in and retrieve its.
Upon returning he says to her,
"Why did you ask me to retrieve the camera when there were many younger
and more athletic males closer to her?" She replied, "Professor you
seem to forget that I'm in your Econ I class, and I don't know anyone who can
go down deeper, stay down longer and come up drier than you."
When drawing up
the guest list for a dinner party, inviting more than 25% economists ruins the
conversation.
Economics is the
painful elaboration of the obvious.
Q: How many
economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Seven, plus/minus ten.
A: Seven, plus/minus ten.
Q:How many
economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Irrelevant - the light bulb's preferences are to be taken as given.
A: Irrelevant - the light bulb's preferences are to be taken as given.
True story: The
scene is a conference of professors of marketing. The keynote speaker is an
eminent economist. The chairman, who sees himself as a bit of a wag, says,
"I would like to introduce
my eminent colleague and friend. He's an economist, one of those people who
turn random numbers into mathematical laws." The economist, not to be outdone, replies,
"My friend, here, is a marketer. They reverse the process."
A Swedish
contribution:
"Economics is like red whine
- you shouldn't smell it but drink it, but if you drink too much on one
occasion, there is a risk for dizziness" ("Nationalekonomi ar som rodvin - man ska inte lukta pa det utan dricka det, men dricker man for mycket pa en gang finns det risk for yrsel"
One day a man
walked into the main library of a major research university. He stopped at the
reference desk and asked the librarian if she had any current books about
economics and the economy.
She answered that she did, and
led the man to the reference shelves where the economics and economy books
were. To the surprise of both the librarian and the man all of the books were off the shelf being used.
``That's OK,'' the man said. ``I'll just go to another library. You see, I'm a very busy man, and I set this weekend aside for studying economics and the economy.''
The librarian said she understood and gave the man directions to the nearest research library. But her interest piqued, she asked: ``Why are you so urgent to study economics and the economy?''
The man replied: "I'm an economist. I've been teaching at this university for the past ten years. I'm attending a business meeting on Monday, and I figure the economy has changed in the past ten years."
Economists do it
with cross partials...
Q. What's the
difference between an economist and a befuddled old man with Alzheimer's?
A. The economist is the one with
the calculator.
One day a woman
went for a walk in her neighborhood and came across a boy with some puppies.
"Would you like a puppy? They aren't ready for new homes quite yet, but
they will be in a few weeks!"
"Oh, they're adorable,"
the lady said. "What kind of dogs are they?" "These are economists."
"OK. I'll tell my husband."
So she went home and told her husband. He was very interested to see the puppies. About a week later he came across the lad; the puppies were very active.
"Hey, Mister. Want a puppy?"
"I think my wife spoke with you last week. What kind of dogs are these?"
"Oh. These are decision analysts."
"I thought you said last week that they were economists."
"Yeah, but they've opened their eyes since then."
An economist is
someone who doesn't know what he's talking about - and make you feel it's your
fault.
The definition
of "waste": a busload of economists plunging over a precipice with
three of the seats unoccupied.
True stories
I was riding my bike down a hill
in my city one night and two policemen stopped me at their speed trap. They
asked me how fast I was going - 63 km - and congratulated me on the accuracy
of my speedo. They then asked me why I was not driving a car and as I was a
woman, wasn't it dangerous to be be out at night on a bike. I said I did not
drive a car. They then asked me my occupation - I said "an
economist". One of the policemen said "That's why she's riding a bike
- she's economising" I know that economics is ruling my life when
- I tried to calculate my 3 year old son's discount rate by seeing how many sweets he would require to be promised to him after dinner to be equivalent to one sweet before dinner
- I spent one hour in a toy shop making up over 20 bundles of toys that could be purchased for $25 and then asked my son to select one of these bundles
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