24 August 2010

Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours

It sounds familiar that human being always repeat their mistakes. But is it true?

In this talk, Laurie Santos has presented that the mistakes which human being made are predictable via a clever experiments in "monkeynomics". Through the decision-making of our primate relatives, this experiment reveal the roots of human irrationality.

Let's do the two experiments first,
Experiment 1. Choose a better investment return if you have $1000.
(a) The return is either $1000 or $0 when you have invested $1000 in a fixed period.
(b) The return is guarantee $500 when when you have invested $1000 in a fixed period.



Experiment 2. Choose a better way when you are facing lost in your investment.
(a) The lost is either $0 or $1000 when you have invested $1000 in a fixed period.
(b) The lost  is guarantee $500 when when you have invested $1000 in a fixed period.


Want to know the answer? Please enjoy the talk from Laurie Santos in TED.


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Written by: Xaivier Chia

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