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Assorted links

1. Why we procrastinate -- we are not sure we can do the job

2. Methods of visualization

3. Oddhead, a new blog on information and prediction markets, via Chris Masse

4. How sound affects what we see

5. Last year Britons gave over $660 million to Nigerian-style scans, from Harpers Index, February issue.

6. John Tierney has a NYT blog, gated for many of you.

Posted by Tyler Cowen on January 17, 2007 at 11:18 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink

Comments

Wow. A gated blog. What a genius idea! Make me pay something to read a blog. Why hasn't someone thought of this before? Oh yeah, now I remember. Because it's stupid.

Why not have a NYT blog that's non-gated linking or summarizing gated material? At least that would keep people interested in NYT material enough to push traffic there.

Posted by: Jason Voorhees at Jan 17, 2007 11:24:55 AM

What's the source that Harper's cites for the Nigerian figure?

Posted by: Felix at Jan 17, 2007 12:03:03 PM

This is just to voice my admiration of the huge amount of reading you and Alex seem to able to get done daily. I wish I had paid more attention to improving reading comprehension while still young.

P.s. I didn't think anyone ever responded to the Nigerian scams, until last week when my sister (!) actually responded to one, and even got a reply, where the imposter attached a (get this!) picture of his passport to authenticate himself! Anyways, I've asked my sis to not go for this $20 million...

Posted by: Vikram at Jan 17, 2007 12:27:03 PM

I have a strange pattern. I'm excited as long
as I'm not sure I can do a task, but when I know I can,
I get bored and lose interest.

Posted by: Keith at Jan 17, 2007 12:52:05 PM

The amount of money supposedly made from the Nigerian scam is grossly inflated. What is the source? Who is reporting? I am Nigerian, definitely cant see the effect of "all that money" in the system.

Posted by: tmex12 at Jan 17, 2007 4:26:24 PM

I find that procrastination frequently leads to a long-term payoff in addition to the short-term, especially when it comes to school.

There have been a (small) number of times when I have hurried to accomplish something ahead of schedule only to find out that the teacher has made some important change to the assignment that necessitates additional work. Had I waited until the night before it was due, I would have had all the pertinent information to complete the project correctly the first time.

I also procrastinate when it comes to buying my texbooks for the semester, because inevitably my professor will inform the class on the first day that at least one of the books on the list isn't required, or that an old edition is acceptable.

Of course, the best reason to procrastinate, for me, is the slight chance that the assignment will be cancelled altogether. Or at least I won't be held responsible for it.

Posted by: Christina at Jan 17, 2007 4:34:59 PM

I'm sure this sounds simplistic, but if you don't want to do something, isn't there something pleasurable in not doing it?

Posted by: Roger Sweeny at Jan 17, 2007 5:45:59 PM

Humans are poor at estimating the value of their effort. Procrastination is a defensive behavior that keeps us from spinning our wheels on low-value work that seems important.

I'd say more but there are some more important things I gotta do right now.

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