{"id":1720,"date":"2009-08-13T07:17:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T12:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2009-08-13T07:17:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T12:17:22","slug":"marginal-revolution-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/13\/marginal-revolution-timing\/","title":{"rendered":"Marginal Revolution: Timing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was a trick question and I first thought go backward because most people would think going forward means friday, but when I realized they are the same I was thinking whatever!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTiming<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s say a meeting, originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been moved forward two days. What is the new day of the meeting?<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a question from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mark Frauenfelder\" rel=\"imdb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2536498\/\">Mark Frauenfelder<\/a> at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Boing Boing\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boing_Boing\">Boing Boing<\/a>.  The answer says a lot about how you implicitly think about time.<br \/>\nIf you think it&#8217;s Friday, you imagine time as something you move through. If you think it&#8217;s Monday, you think of time as something that passes by you.<br \/>\nAccording to this research, a bit sketchy it seems to me, Friday people tend to be angrier.  <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"FYI\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FYI\">FYI<\/a>, I&#8217;m a Monday person (it took me some time to see the question could have another answer!).<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2009\/08\/timing.html\">Marginal Revolution: Timing<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/713a0f71-cda7-482b-a2c6-fa2f02576e45\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was a trick question and I first thought go backward because most people would think going forward means friday, but when I realized they are the same I was thinking whatever! Timing Let&#8217;s say a meeting, originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been moved forward two days. What is the new day of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/13\/marginal-revolution-timing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marginal Revolution: Timing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[250,252,507,796,893,1251,1370,1411],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","tag-boing-boing","tag-book","tag-energy","tag-kids-and-teens","tag-mark-frauenfelder","tag-school-time","tag-technology","tag-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}