The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:
Which is your favorite season?
Spring - 27%
Summer - 36%
Autumn - 33%
Winter - 4%
So, summer it is then, by a fairly narrow margin.
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Another little brain teaser this week.
What has more influence on the value of a place in a queue? The number of people in front of you or the number of people behind you?
Take part here.
Clue: you are in the queue in the supermarket and you realize that you have forgotten to buy XYZ.
There is a nuisance cost to you of doing without XYZ for the next few days. If you leave the queue to get it, there is a time cost of starting again at the back of the queue; the value of the place is equal to the time cost of starting again at the back.
If the value of your place in the queue is lower than the nuisance cost, you will leave the queue, go and get XYZ and start again.
If the value of your place in the queue is higher than the nuisance cost, you will stay in the queue and do without.
When working out the value of your place in the queue, do you count the number of people in front of you or the number of people behind you?
Debate Magazine
