yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

How Much Money Would It Take? | Brain Games


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

To find out what it would take to get someone to change their beliefs, we've asked several people of various backgrounds to take part in a little experiment.

“Hey, hi, welcome to bringing, as my friend.”

“Thank you!”

“So I'm gonna ask you a series of questions and you'll answer them. Do you prefer sunny days or cloudy days?”

“Sunny.”

“What is your favorite planet?”

“Gotta be Jupiter.”

“What's your favorite color?”

“No basic questions, basic beliefs, right?”

“Well, let's change up the game. If I give you 200 shekels, would you say that you prefer cloudy days?”

“So what do you think? Now, for 200 shekels, about $50, would you change your preference for sunny weather?”

“Clemmy's good. Cloudy good, right? You prefer cloudy day?”

“Yeah.”

“Alright, thank you.”

“You're welcome. Let's see what other beliefs we can buy. If I was to give you 200 shekels, would you say that red is your favorite color?”

“What kind of some nice?”

“So red is now your favorite?”

“What? Yes.”

“Okay, for 200 shekels, would you say that Saturn is your favorite?”

“That's my second favorite, and so it could obviously be my first, so yes.”

“Yes, I would.”

“So Saturday's your favorite?”

“Saturn is my favorite planet. Gotta love those rings.”

“You gotta love the better ones. Yes. Superman or Batman?”

“Superman.”

“200 shekels, would you tell me that you prefer Batman?”

“That is fine. Batman's fine, right?”

“In the favorite?”

“Yeah.”

“For about $50, most people were willing to Reba leave their beliefs. Not always. For 200 shekels, will you say that you hate necklaces?”

“No, for foreigners.”

“Yeah, for 800 shekels.”

“Okay, okay, so you hate necklaces?”

“I hate necklaces for 800 shekels. If I gave you 200 shekels, are you willing to say that you don't like purple?”

“No. What about for 800? Can you say that you don't like purple?”

“Okay, so say I don't like purple.”

“I don't like where.”

“But yeah, well, there you go. Clearly, some beliefs were more closely held but still had their price."

“So how far do you think we'll have to raise our price to buy the biggest belief of all? How do you feel about God?”

“A part of me, I believe in leaving God.”

“For 200 shekels, would you say that you were an atheist?”

“No way. No way. That's a bit different.”

More Articles

View All
These Tiny, Stunning Moths Are Only Found in One Place on Earth | National Geographic
A lot of people will think moth, and they’ll think dark gray fuzzy thing that they don’t want flying around their lights at night. These things don’t look like that at all, and in fact, most moths don’t. You say to anybody “microscopic moth,” they’re some…
DESTROYING all my credit cards with a FLAMETHROWER
What’s up you guys? It’s Graham here. So after reading all of the comments on the unboxing video of the JP Morgan Reserve credit card, I came to the realization that credit cards are evil. So I’m gonna be destroying all of my credit cards today and seeing…
Conditions for confidence intervals worked examples | AP Statistics | Khan Academy
Ali is in charge of the dinner menu for his senior prom, and he wants to use a one sample z interval to estimate what proportion of seniors would order a vegetarian option. He randomly selects 30 of the 150 total seniors and finds that seven of those samp…
2015 AP Calculus AB 6c | AP Calculus AB solved exams | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy
Part C: Evaluate the second derivative of y with respect to x squared at the point on the curve where x equals negative one and y is equal to one. All right, so let’s just go to the beginning where they tell us that d y d x is equal to y over three y squ…
Area between a curve and and the _-axis | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy
So right over here I have the graph of the function y is equal to 15 / x, or at least I see the part of it for positive values of X. What I’m curious about in this video is I want to find the area not between this curve and the positive x-axis. I want to …
Writing hypotheses for a significance test about a mean | AP Statistics | Khan Academy
A quality controlled expert at a drink bottling factory took a random sample of bottles from a batch and measured the amount of liquid in each bottle in the sample. The amount in the sample had a mean of 503 milliliters and a standard deviation of 5 milli…