On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Fred Foldvary wrote:
First of all, the outcome is not necessarily known in advance. The outcome
could be to not obtain the good. We don't know whether one will have to pay
the $100.
It doesn't matter whether he knows he has to pay or knows he doesn't or
knows he has to
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Fred Foldvary wrote:
Each voter writes down $5 million, the project is undertaken, and social
loss of $85 per voter follows.
Eric
If a voter writes down $5 million, he is declaring that the project is worth
far more to him than the $100 cost he will have to pay.
Maybe the topic of feral children is a bit of target from the armchair
list, but I am curious to see if someone could share their knowedge
about this. Do the stories about feral children -lost or abandoned
children raised in extreme social isolation, either surviving in the
wild through their
Diego! Diego! The definitive source on outlandish, but possibly
true facts is the weekly Straight Dope Column in the Chicago
Reader, written by Cecil Adams. To sum up Cecil's column,
yes, there a few authenticated cases of feral children, but
most researchers doubt that any of these were raised
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Is there a critical period for language acquisition?
Yup. Very early on all infants make all the sounds of
all human languages (I think they might be called
phonemes). Anyway, they get culled by imitating the
parents. Hence, it's so difficult for Japanese to say
