But that is not what happens in real life, if the results of a new loan game devised by behavioral economist and bestselling author Dan Ariely are to be believed.
So what we have here is not necessarily real, not necessarily the truth, but a stochastic process that moves closer and closer to the real, to the truth.
Right now, he is succeeding at being appealing, but not always at remaining connected to what is real and true.
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My firm's research suggests that business and consumer confidence there is high, that there is not too much leverage in China's marketplace (leverage, not high prices, is what causes dangerous real estate and stock bubbles) and that the government is investing smartly in infrastructure projects like rail lines, subways and clean technology initiatives that improve economic efficiency and lower the costs of doing business.
Much can happen in the murky waters between what is real and what is not.
It prevents the patient from having a clear perception of what is real and what is not, she says.
Has man really outsmarted God, to the degree that we know more than what is real and what is not?
GPLv3 will prevent "tivoization" by insisting that freedom No. 1, the freedom to modify the program to do what you wish, is real and not a sham.
What Hot Coffee does not show or discuss is the real impact of frivolous lawsuits.
What the trial has not revealed so far is the real motive behind Mr Gabriele's apparent betrayal of the Pope's confidence, nor whether any Vatican senior clerics were involved in the most serious internal security breach suffered by the Holy See in living memory.
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The mistake Searle is making is to think that what is objectively real (in the sense of that which exists in itself and not relative to perceivers) is exhausted by what is natural and therefore accessible to natural science.
Mr. ANDREW NATSIOS (U.S. Ambassador to the Sudan): Our real interest here is not what it's called or what it looks in terms of its helmet but how robust and how efficient it is.
The range is what you'd expect from real people, not typical one-dimensional game characters.
The last year taught us an important lesson: What used to be called "realpolitik" is not actually "real" any more.
Of course any impact would be better than none, but tinkering around the edge of real issues is what people accept, if not actually like, for fiscal policy, the environment, national security, health care and so on.
The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce..what is wrong with technology is that its not connected in any real way with the matters of the spirt and of the heart.
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But if, like most of us, you hold your nest egg in a savings account, a money market fund, real estate, or a 401(k) plan then what you care about is your real rate of return, not the inflation rate per se.
So they went into these really risky forms of insurance, and now as those sub-prime mortgage bonds have been down-graded and started to blow up, the bond insurers are starting to blow up, too, and the real significance is: What does it mean not just for municipalities all over the country but for the entire market?
What they don't understand is that Joe Paterno is not the real victim here.
The real issue is not whether we do what the Saudis want, but when the Saudis are going to begin doing what America wants.
Yet many individual investors who think they own actual gold could be in for a shock because what they own is a pretty good promise, but definitely not the real deal.
She ought to have remembered that real news, even real gossip, begins in what is observed firsthand, not secondhand.
Beyond whether or not the numbers are real is the question of what those numbers would actually prove even if they were.
"Part of what makes this compelling is not so much reading every tweet but just getting a real-time sense of how fast this is moving, " he said.
The real problem is what we need to be talking about, not just because it's at the core of our intelligence crisis, but because it's the same problem that broke our economy, made health care unaffordable and hobbled the U.S. auto industry.
We understand that real change is most possible when you impact not only what people think, but also what they feel and believe.
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Professor HARRIS-LACEWELL: Well, I have to laugh a little bit because, you know, we're academics, so it's shocking to you that anyone even reads the work that we do, but what I do hope is that it demonstrates that there are real divisions here that are not just about chocolate cities and vanilla suburbs.
The real source of uncertainty about the euro's future is not what is happening in these countries, but the failure of Germany and its European partners to commit themselves to the level of integration needed to hold the single currency together.
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