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PUSH

PUSH

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Lucky said:
One year our dog opened a box of chocolate candy.
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Back when I was in middle school, my family left to go to a school concert one night. When we came back, there were Hershey Kisses wrappers laying all over the living room. Turns out our dog had gotten into a candy tray that was sitting on an end table next to our couch. Needless to say, we moved the tray into an area less easy to reach.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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PUSH said:
Back when I was in middle school, my family left to go to a school concert one night. When we came back, there were Hershey Kisses wrappers laying all over the living room. Turns out our dog had gotten into a candy tray that was sitting on an end table next to our couch. Needless to say, we moved the tray into an area less easy to reach.
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I thought chocolate was really evil for dogs! Is that not true?
 
acishere

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As a puppy my dog ripped a Christmas stocking down that had a big bag full of M&Ms in it. She ate the whole thing. We took her to a vet and even that big bag of milk chocolate wasn't enough to cause any health concerns outside a stomach ache.
 
Lucky

Lucky

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Economists with too much time on their hands...

"Candy Elasticity: Halloween Experiments on Public Political Statements"
Economic Inquiry, Vol. 54, Issue 1, pp. 543-547, 2016

JULIAN C. JAMISON, World Bank Global Insights InitiativeEmail: julison@gmail.com
DEAN S. KARLAN, Yale University, Innovations for Poverty Action, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)Email: dean.karlan@yale.edu

We conducted experiments during trick‐or‐treating on Halloween in a predominantly liberal neighborhood in the weeks preceding the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. We decorated one side of a house porch with McCain material in 2008 (Romney material in 2012) and the other side with Obama material. Children were asked to choose a side, with half receiving the same candy on either side and half receiving more candy to go to the McCain/Romney side. This yields a “candy elasticity” of children's political support. Results vary by age: children ages nine and older were two to three times more likely to choose the Republican candidate when offered double candy for voting Republican compared to when offered equal candy, whereas children ages eight and under were particularly sticky and did not waver in their choice of candidate despite the offer of double candy.
 
catmom46

catmom46

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Lucky said:
Economists with too much time on their hands...

"Candy Elasticity: Halloween Experiments on Public Political Statements"
Economic Inquiry, Vol. 54, Issue 1, pp. 543-547, 2016

JULIAN C. JAMISON, World Bank Global Insights InitiativeEmail: julison@gmail.com
DEAN S. KARLAN, Yale University, Innovations for Poverty Action, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)Email: dean.karlan@yale.edu

We conducted experiments during trick‐or‐treating on Halloween in a predominantly liberal neighborhood in the weeks preceding the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. We decorated one side of a house porch with McCain material in 2008 (Romney material in 2012) and the other side with Obama material. Children were asked to choose a side, with half receiving the same candy on either side and half receiving more candy to go to the McCain/Romney side. This yields a “candy elasticity” of children's political support. Results vary by age: children ages nine and older were two to three times more likely to choose the Republican candidate when offered double candy for voting Republican compared to when offered equal candy, whereas children ages eight and under were particularly sticky and did not waver in their choice of candidate despite the offer of double candy.
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Yikes, I thought it was one of those spoof studies, but it's an actual study! :confused:
 
Nemo14

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PUSH said:
Back when I was in middle school, my family left to go to a school concert one night. When we came back, there were Hershey Kisses wrappers laying all over the living room. Turns out our dog had gotten into a candy tray that was sitting on an end table next to our couch. Needless to say, we moved the tray into an area less easy to reach.
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Must have taken him a while to unwrap all those.
 
Lucky

Lucky

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catmom46 said:
Yikes, I thought it was one of those spoof studies, but it's an actual study! :confused:
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It makes sense to me. When I was 8, I'd probably have stayed loyal to my parents' political views, but by the time I was 12 or so I'd have gone for the extra candy.

I wonder if they did the study just so they could use the line "children ages 8 and under were particularly sticky..." :rolleyes:
 

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