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radu_floricica | karma 3871 | avg karma 2.3 · 2011-11-18 07:14:32

The "economically rational actor" thing has been debunked long ago (see Kahneman and Tversky). There are much better ways to get people to behave the way you want then appealing to their statistical skills.

eli | karma 29331 | avg karma 3.14 · 2011-11-18 20:14:29+00:00

I assure you that if it's cheaper to pay parking tickets than to feed meters, people will stop feeding meters.

Hey look, it actually happened in Mumbai: http://www.freakonomics.com/2007/03/26/how-to-cheat-the-mumb...

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