You Are Trying to Decide Which Professor to Take for Economics

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Essay

You are trying to decide which professor to take for Economics. (You don't want to take it at all, but you have to.) Professor A is known to have great classes (fascinating lectures with lots of fun stuff thrown in), but she gives very challenging exams. Professor B's classes are quite dull, but his exams are quite easy. What are the marginal costs and benefits of taking Economics from Professor A rather than from Professor B? Who would you pick?

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Definitions:

Trichromatic Analysis

A theory of color vision based on the idea that the eye contains three types of color receptors, sensitive to red, green, and blue light.

Primary Colors

A set of colors from which all other colors can be obtained through mixing; in the context of additive color mixing – red, green, and blue; for subtractive mixing – cyan, magenta, and yellow.

Brightness Contrast

Brightness contrast involves the perception of an object's brightness being affected by the brightness of its surroundings, making it appear lighter or darker.

Lateral Inhibition

A neural mechanism that increases contrast and sharpness in visual and auditory pathways by inhibiting neighboring neurons' activity.