Teori, praktik, humor, återigen

I god Henry Hazlitt-stil så är det samma teori igen: "incentives matter more than intentions" - Joshua Gans på bloggen Game Theorist skrev 2006 om potträning och bonussystem; vad kan egentligen gå fel med ett system där sju torra dagar belönas med exempelvis en bok eller en leksak?

Jo, inledningsvis:

Well we had good nights and intermittent accidents. But then we had a week of dry pull-ups. Much rejoicing ensued including a bonus; no more pull-ups. Sadly, the next night there was an accident. Now you might say, these things happen. But it turns out that the problem was that these things hadn't happened.

Our son had a small rubbish bin in his room. Upon inspection, we found 5 full pull-ups. It turned out that our son was getting up in the morning, noticing the pictures gone and getting himself a new pull-up! There was nothing malicious in this. He just understood the rule as: "produce a pull-up with pictures." And so he worked out how to do just that.

Regeln att det måste vara samma blöja på morgonen som på kvällen lades därför till, men det stannar inte där - teori, praktik och humor i samma läsvärda inlägg.

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