They grow up to write economics papers like this one, which looks at whether participants in lab experiments get closer to efficient outcomes when exposed to one lead singer of the rock band AC/DC versus another.
I hope for this guy’s sake he has tenure.
(Hat tip to Joshua Gans.)
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The university undergraduate must be the most researched organism on the planet. Why do researchers constantly go straight to undergraduates? I’m sure you can just as easily find 18 campus janitors and facilities people to study.
But personally, I wonder if ultimatum game studies miss an important aspect: satisfying your outrage might be worth 3 dollars, but not 300,000 dollars. With chump change you’re probably more focused on the ratio than the absolute gain.
I also wonder what the guy who’s MAO of 0 was up to. Maybe he was an American who correctly caculated Candian currency to be worthless?
Clearly the music of Brian Johnson has an adverse affect on undergraduates willingness to uphold theory. Or perhaps AC-DC has a adverse affect on PhDs’ Excel abilities?
I daresay, your discovery has dire predictions for his forthcoming paper “The Effects of Recommended Play on Compliance with Ambient Pollution Instruments,” with John Spraggon, forthcoming in Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics, T. Cherry, S. Kroll and J. Shogren (eds.), New York: Routledge. I doubt I’ll be able to count the references to “Freebird” on one hand.
Clearly the more interesting aspect is why academia feels the need to conceal what exactly their papers are about.
The university undergraduate must be the most researched organism on the planet. Why do researchers constantly go straight to undergraduates? I’m sure you can just as easily find 18 campus janitors and facilities people to study.
But personally, I wonder if ultimatum game studies miss an important aspect: satisfying your outrage might be worth 3 dollars, but not 300,000 dollars. With chump change you’re probably more focused on the ratio than the absolute gain.
I also wonder what the guy who’s MAO of 0 was up to. Maybe he was an American who correctly caculated Candian currency to be worthless?
Clearly the music of Brian Johnson has an adverse affect on undergraduates willingness to uphold theory. Or perhaps AC-DC has a adverse affect on PhDs’ Excel abilities?
I daresay, your discovery has dire predictions for his forthcoming paper “The Effects of Recommended Play on Compliance with Ambient Pollution Instruments,” with John Spraggon, forthcoming in Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics, T. Cherry, S. Kroll and J. Shogren (eds.), New York: Routledge. I doubt I’ll be able to count the references to “Freebird” on one hand.
Clearly the more interesting aspect is why academia feels the need to conceal what exactly their papers are about.
my favorite part…
Our analysis has direct implications for policy and organizational design: when policymakers or employers are engaging in negotiations (or setting up environments in which other parties will negotiate) and are interested in playing the music of AC/DC, they should choose from the band’s Brian Johnson era discography.
my favorite part…
Our analysis has direct implications for policy and organizational design: when policymakers or employers are engaging in negotiations (or setting up environments in which other parties will negotiate) and are interested in playing the music of AC/DC, they should choose from the band’s Brian Johnson era discography.
Who is more foolish: the Associate Professor who conducts the spurious research or the department and university that funds it?
Who is more foolish: the Associate Professor who conducts the spurious research or the department and university that funds it?
Not the first person to try something like this:
http://www.philalawyer.net/archives/for_those_about.phtml
http://www.philalawyer.net/archives/we_salute_you_1.phtml
Not the first person to try something like this:
http://www.philalawyer.net/archives/for_those_about.phtml
http://www.philalawyer.net/archives/we_salute_you_1.phtml