A Better Course

People offered the banknote believed, on average, that they could use it to buy 83 paperclips, 72 napkins or 46 sweets. Those offered the coin thought 39 paperclips, 51 napkins or 27 sweets. In other words, the note was believed to be almost twice as valu

While students came up with different strategies for allocating their meager funds, all found that they spent more time thinking about obtaining, preparing and eating food than they ever had before.