John_Maxwell_IV comments on Applying Behavioral Psychology on Myself - Less Wrong

53 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 20 June 2010 06:25AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 20 June 2010 10:08:02AM *  2 points [-]

Question

cough technically....

not sure I understood exactly what you meant by "I started eating a gummy worm with 50% probability each time I did the chore at a pre-determined time early in the evening."

If I am not mistaken... every time he finished a chore that he had scheduled he tossed a (metaphoric or literal) coin. If heads, he ate a gummy worm but if tails he did not eat a gummy worm.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 20 June 2010 10:08:43AM 1 point [-]

Correct. I used this website.

Comment author: wedrifid 20 June 2010 10:49:30AM 4 points [-]

You know when I saw that it allowed you to choose which kind of coin to flip I thought it was going to be cute and actually implement a trivial bias based on studies on how the various coins are weighted. (I checked, it doesn't.)