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This is my new life as Mr. McNamara, Teach for America Corps Member. If you did well on your reading quiz, I won’t scold you for calling me “Mistah...
...quiz for all you global-warming experts: After China and the U.S., which country emits the greatest quantity of greenhouse gases per year? Answer high-tech Japan or industrial Germany, and you flunk. A holographic Al Gore will be beamed over to give you remedial lessons. It's rural Indonesia, which emits 3.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually--almost entirely from deforestation. Living trees absorb CO2, and as they are cut down or burned, they release their stored carbon into the air. Trees also absorb sunlight, warming the earth, but in the tropics their ability to absorb...
...those in support of the status quo rally two arguments to their cause. The first, an eminently practical argument, is that there is significant educational value to making a woman have a nice sit-down with her doctor, who can quiz her on her sex life and tell her what to do if she misses a pill. Supposedly, a good chat with the doc is likely to increase proper usage and knowledge of the potential risks...
This sounds like knee-jerk populism, but Price skills are as important to the biggest fish as to penny-scroungers. Quiz-show skills are the stuff of middlebrow success, of the star pupils who do their homework, please their teachers and go on to earn solid middle-manager salaries. But business fortunes are built, like Pick-a-Pair victories, on risk, a little luck and pricing assets: calculating, assessing value and never overbidding. (And against a ticking clock.) People who do that are the ones who amass billions, drive the economy and bankroll politicians. They don't need to know...
Price matters more than any quiz show because it's like life. It's random: you don't take a qualifying test but are picked from the crowd. It's social: studio-audience help is not forbidden but encouraged, if often wrong. And it's a little savage: yes, I will bid one dollar over you. Price will keep testing consumers after Barker takes his well-earned rest. And if he ever wants to get a glimpse of real America in his leisurely late mornings, he knows where to come on down...