Minimum Headroom

Minimum HeadroomThere is a popular story in the television business about a psychologist in Pasadena who wanted to replicate that business in his laboratory.He installed a bridge in each of two cages of white rats. In one, he fed the rats a small amount of food whenever they jumped over the bridge. In the other, he rewarded their jumps with a much larger amount of a much richer food.Then the psychologist stopped feeding both groups. The first group of rats promptly stopped jumping over the bridg...