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Woohoo! I'm teaching a math class. First one since getting my master's. Only one class. Pay is horrible, but I will enjoy it, and pay off maybe a debt.

YES. But boy is he fun. I am enjoying the whole toddler thing. NGT is right that they are little scientists, and I have the experimental 'results' to prove it. (i.e. house is trashed)-Dave K

Forgot to be on PF again for awhile. Hi there!

Just to clarify: "given an identical collection of information" i.e. two people receive the same set of data, i.e. a letter in the mail saying "You won a vacation" "experience" in my case, meaning the background of the individual - Person A has won many vacations, Person B has always found...

Nah, because your answer, even if it was meant jokingly, is a view that people do hold!

I agree with this in principle, but I think the optimist and pessimist do have different experiences that may color their interpretation of the received information. In that sense they do not have exactly the same information.

I put other. I consider myself and optimist, but I'm also skeptical/empirical. I am optimistic in the long term, ('things will work out/we will figure it out/we'll get through it") but on a case by case basis I am skeptical about outcomes until I have evidence to support my viewpoint. i.e...

BTW a word or phrase for which there is no google result is called a Googlenope https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Googlenope I just got one with "effervescent peach berries" One for which there is only one result is called a Goolewhack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack I don't know...

darnit. I forgot to be no PF again. hello

If I may say so, I wish we had more questions like this on PF, and more question askers like @doglover9754 People may think the content is basic, but explaining it in simple terms is not easy. The responses are great and enjoyable to read.

Now this is funny. I listen to a lot of podcasts and it turns out two of them had Thaler episodes - and I never listened to the one i just posted. I just assumed it was freakonomics, searched for the episode about Thaler and found it. Here's the one I actually DID listen to - it was hidden...

Is it possible you have an issue with traditional economics and the notion of the "Homo economicus." i.e. "portraying humans as consistently rational and narrowly self-interested agents who usually pursue their subjectively-defined ends optimally." There was a great episode of the Freakonomics...

I might have to try that orange peel thing as a sweetener, since I have to avoid sugar. (The actual orange is too sugary for me!)

In undergrad, self doubt is normal. In graduate school, it is mandatory. -Dave K

How about; n(MS) + l(BS) >> m(BS) > BS For n, l, > 0, m >1