From the inbox:
Dear John Whitehead,
Six months ago, you flipped a coin to answer your question Should I splurge on an expensive meal? Now, believe it or not, you’ve been a part of the research team for half a year! And I’m checking in to hear even more about your coin flip experience.
Click here to tell us how Freakonomics Experiments has worked out for you over the past six months. This is also your chance to let us know what you thought of the experience overall. If you’ve been itching to let us know about something you really liked (or didn’t!) about Freakonomics Experiments, now is the time.
As always, we want to hear from you regardless of whether you followed the coin toss or not—this project absolutely depends on your data.
What’s in it for you? First, we’ll send you our preliminary analysis of the coin toss experiment so you can see what we’ve learned so far. We’ll also put your name in a raffle for one of 20 signed copies of SuperFreakonomics Illustrated. But mostly, we hope you’ll fill out the survey because you know how happy it will make me if you do so.
I’m looking forward to hearing about how these past few months have gone for you!
Thanks for your participation,
Steven Levitt
I took less than minute to make Dr. Levitt happy (but I don't really know how happy it made him):
My odds of winning a copy of SuperFreakonomics Illustrated are 1 in 1341. How freaky is that?