October 12, 2006
Never Eat Directly from a Package
The bigger the plate, the larger the spoon, the deeper the bag, the more we eat, by Kim Severson
Dr. Wansink is particularly proud of his bottomless soup bowl, which he and some undergraduates devised with insulated tubing, plastic dinnerware and a pot of hot tomato soup rigged to keep the bowl about half full. The idea was to test which would make people stop eating: visual cues, or a feeling of fullness.
People using normal soup bowls ate about nine ounces. The typical bottomless soup bowl diner ate 15 ounces. Some of those ate more than a quart, and didn’t stop until the 20-minute experiment was over.
And some wondered within minutes, hey, why the hell doesn’t the level of soup in this bowl ever sink? (There’s a funny play on words here if you know Chinese … “Wan” means “bowl” in Chinese, Dr. Wansink, get it?)
October 13th, 2006 at 7:25 am
[…] Well I totally missed that move today. Damn, the markets took off like a rocket around 2pm. Meanwhile, I was done for the day after getting chopped up in the morning. I’m starting to question the way I am trading. I think I may be spreading myself too thin with a long watch list, including a bottomless bowl of trade-ideas alerts. Starting tomorrow I think I will go back to the watch list I used originally - the alpha list. If I use only the liquid stocks on the list then I will have a very short list that I can really focus on. Maybe I’ll miss some moves, but I am sure I won’t get chopped up as much. Anyway, I’m trying to go back and trade exactly as I did in June and July and this is the list I used then. Wish me luck skillz. […]