Emma Peaslee
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237 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 22 Jul
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It isn't fun.
Okay. I have to shut this. It's so distracting. I have to turn it down. All right, hold on. It's so loud.
As long as you are okay with us having no limit on the increasing complexity of our suggestions.
I hope so, yes.
Today on the show, a very Planet Money puzzle. We look for ways to determine which of Sam's colleagues, which are also our colleagues, values Sam's eggs the most, therefore winning the right to buy a dozen of his precious eggs at his absurdly low price of $5.
And we discover a pricing method from a development economist that forces people to express their true value for an item. And maybe America's next great game show.
That's after the break. Our colleague Sam Mertens has backyard chickens, which, in an egg shortage, makes him the egg king. And he has tasked us... We made him task us a little bit with figuring out who should get eggs when he has an extra dozen.
But Sam has given us an interesting little twist. His egg price is fixed. He will not let us sell a dozen eggs for anything other than $5, which basically covers his backyard chicken costs. So what this means is that we cannot just do the planet money thing and let the market decide, sell to the highest bidder.
So with our invisible hands tied behind our invisible backs, we went looking for some other way to determine who values Sam's eggs the most. And that, that is how we ended up talking to Abigail Jones.
You want to jazz it up? I don't know, like... Professional survey designer?
Right. Is there a way we could ask our 15 NPR colleagues how much they value eggs?
My fear is that they'll just be like, oh, this is about whether I get to buy the eggs. I'm going to pretend to like eggs the most. Yes. Yes. If people know they're taking a survey about this, it certainly could mess up the results.
Can my list of foods just be like, I don't know, the items at the Holiday Inn Express Buffet?
Now, I would think, great, we now show people 10 breakfast buffet items and have them rank them. But Abigail says, oh, no, no, no.
Yeah, so in the company world, this would look like, oh, I don't know, I'm a car company, and I ask people, if you had to choose, do you want a car with fancy sound system or fancy navigation system? Now, how about choosing between a powerful engine and good mileage?
Abigail suggested we add a couple traditional survey questions about some of those foods.
Composite egg lover score is good. It's good.
Do you remember that there was an egg council campaign that was like, I love eggs from my head down to my legs?
No?
Okay. Because I would love to call this the I love eggs from my head down to my legs composite.
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