army1987 comments on Problems in Education - Less Wrong

65 Post author: ThinkOfTheChildren 08 April 2013 09:29PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 April 2013 04:22:59PM *  5 points [-]

The specific project I was evaluating had only gotten $800,000 out of the maximum $2m. Its strategy was to purchase the male students iPod Touches, the female students makeovers, manicures, and pedicures at a local beauty parlor, and all students were offered an additional iPod Touch or Makeover, respectively, if they passed the exam at the end of the current year.

Besides everything else, the iPod touch doesn't sound exactly like the kind of thing that already having one makes you more likely to want another. What the heck should I do with a second iPod touch if already have one? (Beside selling it or giving it to my sister, that is.)

Comment author: Document 11 April 2013 02:13:08AM 1 point [-]

One public and one private? One to listen to while you record with the other? One for practical and one for recreational use? Not that either of the uses you downplay aren't also good.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 April 2013 04:40:56PM 1 point [-]

Okay, the second sentence of my comment might be an exaggeration, but I stand by its first sentence.

Not that either of the uses you downplay aren't also good.

Yeah, but I'd kind-of prefer to be given the retail price of a new iPod touch in cash rather than be given a new iPod touch.