Saturday, January 29, 2011

Microblog #7, "Opening Skinner's Box, Chapter 1"

Summary
The author writes about B.F. Skinner, a behavioral scientist during the mid 1900s. Skinner was famous for experiments inducing animals to respond to stimuli, and a controversial figure.

Discussion
I wish the author would spend more time talking about things of substance, and less waxing poetic about Skinner's skinny dipping habits and the eye color of his daughter. I did note, however, the relationship of WoW farming to the irregular rewarding lever experiment.

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