Miles per gallon or gallons per 100 miles?
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THE MPG ILLUSION
In their carpooling conversations, friends of Decision Science News Rick Larrick and Jack Soll have a come up with poignant example of how information that is mathematically equivalent is psychologically different (to paraphrase Feynman). Their “miles per gallon illusion” has been passed by our editorial staff to policy makers and may someday, hopefully, change policy. It is definitely worth reading. Check out:
- The article in Science. (Psst: If you access the article from the link on this page, you don’t need a pricey subscription to Science to read the article.)
- The blog
- An interactive quiz
- And, of course, the summer blockbuster movie.
