The undergraduate Finance and Economics Council here at the University of Rochester held an event at my house last week, which included pizza, informal chat with professors, a rationality test (out of 31 students, exactly one scored a perfect 5 and one scored a perfect zero), a selfie shot or two, and some time on the aerial silks, where three students were brave enough to go up in the air — and each of them accomplished more in under ten minutes than I accomplished in my first ten weeks. The evidence:
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| Demo | Lance Floto Front Salto Dive |
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| Juan Bernardo Tobar Front Salto Dive |
Lev Bokeria Crossback Straddle |
Thanks to Council president Shucen Wu for making this happen, to Zach Taylor for the video, and to everyone who participated. We should do this again.
If I generate 31 binomial n=5, p=0.5 random variables then we’d more or less expect to see 1 5 and 1 zero (31 is close to 32). Was the distribution of scores roughly what we’d expect from a binomial? If so was there any kind of correlation between which questions where gotten right and which where gotten wrong (e.g. I can imagine the 5 people who got 1 question right all getting the same one right)?
Jonathan Kariv:
I don’t know the distribution. I asked “How many scored five?” and “How many scored zero?”, and each time one hand went up. That’s all I know.
Looks like Steve Landsburg ∈ {1%}
Beautiful room.
Have the questions on the rationality test been put up here? If not, how about a test for us?
Is it rational to reveal to your prof that you scored zero on a rationality test?
@bob
ill say. that’s a freaking fireplace, eh?
I don’t think ill ever be that smart.