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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Conflict between 'thinking' and 'feeling'

I guess most of us have heard about the jellybean syndrome..

A small bowl held 10 jellybeans out of which 9 were white and 1 red. Another bowl, a larger one contained 100 jellybeans out of which 91 were white and 9 red. People participating in an experiment could win 10 bucks if they were able to draw a red jellybean out of either of the two bowls. Despite reminding that smaller bowl had 10% and larger bowl had 9% red beans, about 2/3 of the participants chose to pick from the larger bowl.

Interesting! Isn't it??

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