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Sunday Jun 17, 2012

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Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, from Super Freakonomics (on the introduction of the seat belt to automobiles):

"McNamara was of course right: the seat belt would eventually save many lives. But the key word here is "eventually."

The brilliant rationalist had encountered a central, frustrating tenant of human nature: behavior change is hard. The cleverest engineer or economist or politician or parent may come up with a cheap, simple solution to a problem, but if it requires people to change their behavior, it may not work. Every day, billions of people around the world engage in behaviors they know are bad for them - smoking cigarettes, gambling excessively, riding a motorcycle without a helmet.

Why? Because they want to! They derive pleasure from it, or a thrill, or just a break from the daily humdrum. And getting them to change their behavior, even with a fiercely rational argument, isn't easy."



Explains a whole lot, yes??

Also, while discussing global warming:

"Although economists are trained to be cold-blooded enough to sit around and calmly discuss the trade-offs involved in global catastrophe, the rest of us are a bit more excitable. And most people respond to uncertainty with more emotion - fear, blame, paralysis - than may be advisable."

Again,



That is all. For now...
gi_jo:
a change in behavior usually means someone has to accept the way they have been acting and sometimes say "i'm sorry". people are as stubborn as weeds. we try to rid ourselves from the ugliness that weeds are but they just keep popping up all around you.

thanks for putting a smile on my face this morning.
Jun 18, 2012
pinyon:
I hate people.
Jun 18, 2012

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