Re: poly: Why Oldies Stations?

>> 3) People invest in integrating this stuff into their lives, and so
>> choices get entrenched. ... one's clothing
>> wardrobe may be coordinated with one's makeup style.
>
>4) People have trouble changing their habits, and once they get used
>to one set of foods or a particular style or what have you, they have
>trouble breaking the habit.
>
>The distinction between 3 and 4 is that I don't think its a question
>of needing to invest in changing (trying a new food is a fairly low
>effort activity) as it is a question of simply being too habituated to
>change.

I'm not sure there is a distinction here. Ask yourself: what does
"habituated" mean, and what function does it serve? Are there any other
functions other than to avoid costs of changing and of making decisions?

Robin Hanson
hanson@econ.berkeley.edu http://hanson.berkeley.edu/
RWJF Health Policy Scholar, Sch. of Public Health 510-643-1884
140 Warren Hall, UC Berkeley, CA 94720-7360 FAX: 510-643-8614
Received on Fri Apr 3 18:25:03 1998