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Predictably Irrational

Posted 12-26-2009 at 06:51 PM by Kielicious

We wake up everyday making decisions that we may think are completely rational, but more and more studies are showing that our "rational" decisions may in fact not be as rational as we think. Dan Ariely made some experiments to expose how rational human beings can continuously pick options they dont really want, and to help verify these findings a small group of students and I decided to replicate Dan's experiments (with extension).

Here's what we found:

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