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From: clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones)
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Subject: Re: Payphone Psychology
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Alternative explanation: the reason there are lines behind the people
using the payphone for longer calls is that the people in front are
using the phones longer.  I have a gift, on the order of being able to
turn gold into lead, of being able to study a set of lines in, e.g., a
grocery store, and, with ridiculously high probability, pick out the
one wihich will cause me to wait the longest.


Chris Jones    clj@ksr.com    {world,uunet,harvard}!ksr!clj