{"id":353,"date":"2008-07-24T02:45:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T01:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2008-07-30T18:44:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T17:44:18","slug":"miles-per-gallon-or-gallons-per-100-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Miles per gallon or gallons per 100 miles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE MPG ILLUSION<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/K2XSuw02vKA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;miles per gallon illusion&#8221; has been passed by our editorial staff to policy makers and may someday, hopefully, change policy. It is definitely worth reading. Check out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/320\/5883\/1593?ijkey=3pScQm7pQBzqs&amp;keytype=ref&amp;siteid=sci\" target=\"_blank\">article in Science.<\/a> (Psst: If you access the article <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.fuqua.duke.edu\/~larrick\/bio\/Reshighlights.htm\" target=\"_self\">from the link on this page<\/a>, you don&#8217;t need a pricey subscription to Science to read the article.)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/mpgillusion.blogspot.com\/ \" target=\"_self\">blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuqua.duke.edu\/news\/mpg\/mpg.html\" target=\"_blank\">interactive quiz<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And, of course, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K2XSuw02vKA\" target=\"_blank\">summer blockbuster movie<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;miles per gallon illusion&#8221; has been passed by our editorial staff to policy makers and may someday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-5H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}