Econ Humor
"Susan, we need to talk. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking
lately. About us. I really like you, but ever since we met in that econ
class in college I knew there was something missing from how I felt:
quantitative reasoning. We can say we love each other all we want, but I
just can’t trust it without the data. And after performing an in-depth
cost-benefit analysis of our relationship, I just don’t think this is
working out.
Please know that this decision was not rash. In fact, it was anything
but—it was completely devoid of emotion. I just made a series of
quantitative calculations, culled from available OECD data on comparable
families and conservative estimates of future likelihoods. I then
assigned weights to various “feelings” based on importance, as judged by
the relevant scholarly literature. From this, it was easy to determine
that given all of the options available, the winning decision on both
cost-effectiveness and comparative-effectiveness grounds was to see
other people."
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