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Last Friday, Christakis sent e-mails to 650 randomly selected undergraduates, asking them to sign up to self-report their flu symptoms twice a week for 12 consecutive weeks. The participating students were also asked to nominate two to three friends, who will be asked to take part in the study as well...
When the study’s participants first sign up, they are also asked questions about how popular they...
...option was a relatively small feature of the health-reform design, meant primarily to assure that there would be some competition for private insurers. As President Obama noted in his September speech before Congress, no more than 5% of Americans - largely those who are now uninsured - are expected to sign up for it. But the public option has assumed an outsized political significance, thanks to the fact that it has become a flash point between the left and the right. That is in part because both see it as a potential precursor to a government-run single payer system, similar...
...classic example of the power of the default is the opt-out 401(k) savings plan. In a 2001 study, only 36% of the participants signed up for a retirement savings plan when they had to opt in - even though their employers were matching their contributions. Free money, and only 36% took it! But when participants were automatically signed up for the same plan but given the chance to opt out, 86% of them stuck with it. Scholars have found similar status-quo results with organ donations. If we have to sign up, very few of us become organ donors...
...wife Virginia (below) had refused to let him pay. They told him, "Bill Cosby eats for free." I tried again the next time I was in town, but Virginia recognized my order and again refused to take my money. After Barack Obama visited earlier this year, a sign went up: BILL COSBY AND PRESIDENT OBAMA ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO EAT HERE FOR FREE. I joked with Ben that Obama hadn't earned the right. Soon after the President's visit, Ben added to the sign: BUT HE PAID...