One of the most important empirical questions of our day. Author's investigations suggest x is between 12 and 36, however some scholars find x to be much smaller, including some studies finding x < 0.
An Important Empirical Question
Posted by Dan Hirschman on March 2, 2009
https://asociologist.com/2009/03/02/an-important-empirical-question/
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Jesse
/ March 2, 2009x < 0
tina
/ March 2, 2009x = salmonella, sometimes
Dan Hirschman
/ March 2, 2009But does the risk of salmonella decrease the expected tastiness (as some small fraction of the time, you get violently ill) or increase the tastiness due to a preference for risk/utility of thrill-seeking? We need data!
mike3550
/ March 2, 2009x < [0 | ~salmonella]
i AM a nerd…
Alotta Errata
/ March 2, 2009clearly, more research is needed. I’ll gladly volunteer if it means I get to eat cookies.