Tom Sawyer and the Construction of Value

Tom Sawyer and the construction of value Dan

This paper challenges the common assumption that economic agents know their tastes. After reviewing previous research showing that valuation of ordinary products and experiences can be manipulated by non-normative cues, we present three studies showing that in some cases people do not have a pre-existing sense of whether an experience is good or bad—even when they have experienced a sample of i...

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Cs 315h Algorithms and Data Structures — Fall 2006 Programming Assignment #2 Random Writing

This assignment explores the idea of using random writing to produce text that is similar to some known piece of work. Imagine taking a book, such as Tom Sawyer, and determining the probability with which each character occurs. You'd probably find that spaces are the most common character, followed by the character e, etc. Given these probabilities, which we will call a Level 0 analysis, you co...

Doing Your Own Benchmark

Anti-Remodeling and Anti-Fibrotic Effects of the Neuregulin-1b Glial Growth Factor 2 in a Large Animal Model of Heart Failure

Cristi L. Galindo, PhD;* Ehab Kasasbeh, MD;* Abigail Murphy, BA; Sergey Ryzhov, MD, PhD; Sean Lenihan; Farhaan A. Ahmad, MD; Philip Williams, PhD; Amy Nunnally, BS; Jamie Adcock, BS; Yanna Song, PhD; Frank E. Harrell, PhD; Truc-Linh Tran, BS; Tom J. Parry, PhD; Jen Iaci, MS; Anindita Ganguly, PhD; Igor Feoktistov, MD, PhD; Matthew K. Stephenson, PhD; Anthony O. Caggiano, MD, PhD; Douglas B. Saw...