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Yeah, I'm not sure it's a 100% reliable method though. Depends how recently the person has eaten (etc).



I'm assuming they bought him a chromebook. That's like saying do you want $100 cash or a $250 chromebook and coding lessons.


But unless he mentioned that when the decision was made, that should not affect the results.


that's true. i'm assuming when you actually ask someone: "100 bucks or coding lessons" the guy is going to be curious and ask a lot of questions.




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