June 22, 2003

The "behavioral economics" of time preference and sugar pills -- it seems that candy eaters lose the will to delay gratification. File this under "studies shows that teen-aged boys are attracted to girls". But note well, this bit of "science" studies what people say, not what they actually do -- and then the whole thing is hyped as if they'd done the latter, and not the former.

Posted by Greg Ransom