Students have reported trouble accessing the tclibrary.org site.
http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Information-Design
The link is working as of 8:40am Aug 30, but many of you have been in touch Sunday and Monday. In class today (again, Aug 30) we will be discussing Anderson's Free, specifically we're re-running the chocolate experiment described on pages 63-67. Google Books offers a free preview of these pages.
Today, Tuesday Aug 30, we'll spend time re-running the experiment. On Thursday, we will discuss the experiment and what it reveals, and its representation in Free as well as in Cheap and another text, Predictably Irrational. The relationship among these texts is established in this New York Times book review, which is itself not without some controversy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/books/06maslin.html
Dan Arielly keeps a blog based around the themes of Predictably Irrational here: http://danariely.com/
See especially this analysis of the chocolate experiments: http://danariely.com/2009/08/10/the-nuances-of-the-free-experiment/
So on Thursday, after running the experiment, I want to talk about the representation of the experience, and how authors represent similar events. In the meantime, we can figure out what is going on at the TCLibrary/Eserver site. Start reading Free and we'll have plenty to discuss this week.
http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Information-Design
The link is working as of 8:40am Aug 30, but many of you have been in touch Sunday and Monday. In class today (again, Aug 30) we will be discussing Anderson's Free, specifically we're re-running the chocolate experiment described on pages 63-67. Google Books offers a free preview of these pages.
Today, Tuesday Aug 30, we'll spend time re-running the experiment. On Thursday, we will discuss the experiment and what it reveals, and its representation in Free as well as in Cheap and another text, Predictably Irrational. The relationship among these texts is established in this New York Times book review, which is itself not without some controversy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/books/06maslin.html
Dan Arielly keeps a blog based around the themes of Predictably Irrational here: http://danariely.com/
See especially this analysis of the chocolate experiments: http://danariely.com/2009/08/10/the-nuances-of-the-free-experiment/
So on Thursday, after running the experiment, I want to talk about the representation of the experience, and how authors represent similar events. In the meantime, we can figure out what is going on at the TCLibrary/Eserver site. Start reading Free and we'll have plenty to discuss this week.
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