haiku: robin hood impulse
04.12.07 • comment • trackback
It is my secret fantasy to one day have the skill to compress my research abstracts into haikus. Example:
“Robin Hood impulse”
Simulated in groups with
Some unreal constraints.
It’s an interesting study, but the situation being tested is rather artificial; essentially a financial game in which individual players cannot make money for themselves. It’s going a little far to claim that this study indicates a so-called “Robin Hood impulse” (another CNN classic, thanks). In the real world, Robin Hood would have been pretty likely to rob from the rich and just keep it for himself. It’s hard out there for a dude with a bow and arrow in Medieval England, after all.