http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/blogging-as-substitute/ European Opinion Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/blogging-as-substitute/comment-page-1/#comment-4588 Tobias Mon, 06 Sep 2004 01:47:22 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=795#comment-4588 Oops. Thanks for noticing. I supppose I should edit and reread my stuff a little more carefully... I once wrote a paper on informational assymmetry about cars when I should have written about used goods in general. The difference in German is only one letter (Gebrauchtwa-g-en, used cars, vs. Gebrauchtwa-r-en, used goods). As cars are the usual example for this problem (G. Akerlof, lemons) it never occured to me that I should not write about cars even though I looked at the assignment sheet for several days: I always thought I read "Gebrauchtwagen". I actually told my tutor to go on the web and look it up when he asked me why I had written exclusively about cars. I said, well, I was asked to. And it was only when we looked it up together that I read the "r". The games our brains play on our expense ;) - Well, it should have read (and it does now) "not more women", as we're clearly under those 13% percent, even if you discount Jurjen Smies, who unfortunatly hasn't written that much on afoe yet. Oops. Thanks for noticing. I supppose I should edit and reread my stuff a little more carefully… I once wrote a paper on informational assymmetry about cars when I should have written about used goods in general. The difference in German is only one letter (Gebrauchtwa-g-en, used cars, vs. Gebrauchtwa-r-en, used goods). As cars are the usual example for this problem (G. Akerlof, lemons) it never occured to me that I should not write about cars even though I looked at the assignment sheet for several days: I always thought I read “Gebrauchtwagen”. I actually told my tutor to go on the web and look it up when he asked me why I had written exclusively about cars. I said, well, I was asked to. And it was only when we looked it up together that I read the “r”. The games our brains play on our expense – Well, it should have read (and it does now) “not more women”, as we’re clearly under those 13% percent, even if you discount Jurjen Smies, who unfortunatly hasn’t written that much on afoe yet.

]]> http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/blogging-as-substitute/comment-page-1/#comment-4587 Randy McDonald Sun, 05 Sep 2004 04:33:52 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=795#comment-4587 Mrs. Tilton isn't a woman? Mrs. Tilton isn’t a woman?

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