"john" wrote in message
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I heard this on the radio today about a test on monkeys. They had two
stations set up. At the first station the monkey would first get one
cookie and the second time he would get two. The third time he would get
only one cookie and it would continue to alternate. At the second station
the monkey first got two cookies and when he came back the second time he
would get one and this would alternate so he got two cookies the third
time he came back to the station. At each station he would get the same
total number of cookies but after a couple of tries the monkeys would
always go to the station that gave him the single cookie at the first try
even though he got the same number of cookies from each station for the
same number of trys. This experiment has some very interesting
connotations as far as sales concepts and merchandising.


John


Thanks a lot! Now I have to go to the store and get some cookies.