Reddit reviews Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

The book Predictably Irrational goes into this a bit. Essentially, arousal really messes up rational thinking (risk vs reward stuff).

> checking stocks in a matter of seconds.

Is this some new slang for "asleep"?

I have a few books on game design on my self. Nothing I would recommend. My best friend's son was taking some game design class in school and I flipped through this text book, utter crap. I did both really enjoy and learn from Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.

The best way to learn game design is to design games. I would recommend you find a game you like that has an editor that allows you to build you own level and get working. There are plenty of games that have communities built around such things so you can find people to play the stuff you are working on and give you feedback.

As far as Dune goes, I don't know the story here. But there was something about the people who owned the rights to Dune and were doing those Sci-Fi channel Dune TV movies realizing that we were putting our new version of Dune 2000 and so on. There was some legal back and forth about if we had the license to be able to do that or now. This was after EA had acquired Westwood/Virgin and I have no idea what all happened except we were already not planning another game after God Emperor.

> I went pretty deep

How deep are we talking here? 5-figures? 6?

Also, EVERY human makes IRRATIONAL DECISIONS.

To deny that is to be Irrational.

See Predictably Irrational.

Anyway, as a fellow HODLER, I wish you luck.

Also, I agree, 0x is VERY hard to explain to newbies, so one of those simplified animations with simple analogies would be helpful.

For what it's worth, this is my attempt at a simple explanation of 0x and ZRX.

This is the real reason. The cost difference between 16GB and 32GB is like $2. But the best way to sell a lot of a $300 phone is to put out a $200 phone that's clearly inferior in comparison.

And - to channel Dan Ariely a shitty $200 iPhone will make the $300 iPhone look better to consumers than a $300 Android with identical features.

It's marketing brilliance, but it does piss me off because 32GB is the precise size I wanted >:|

I think more IT people should work to make themselves more well rounded in non-technical areas, like psychology.

For instance I'm reading Predictably Irrational : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002C949KE

It gives you a bit of insight into why people do seemingly self-defeating, or "stupid" things.

Then you'd probably like this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expanded-ebook/dp/B002C949KE

Since your favourite reddit comment is entirely ripped from the first chapter without any attribution.

It's a great book, I highly recommend it.

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

While the results of their work was hard to quantify, I'm not sure it would qualify as ordinal preference. I'm thinking of things like:

• Availability Bias
  
• Framing effect
  
• Anchoring effect
  
  I will admit to being a psychologist, so I don't know how the mathematical modelling for behavioral economics works.
  
  Dan Ariely, who is an economist, has a popular book called Predictably Irrational. Perhaps "predictability" isn't what economists aren't getting from the research but quantifiability, which is a different quality.

As someone pointed out a few comments later:

"Then you'd probably like this book: http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expanded-ebook/dp/B002C949KE

Since your favourite reddit comment is entirely ripped from the first chapter without any attribution.

It's a great book, I highly recommend it."

Based on your comment below, it sounds like you're talking about Predictably Irrational, which actually is available on the kindle. Hope this helps.

Predictably Irrational, by Dan Airely