This entire discussion ignores the "fact" that my wife taught me, i.e., that picking up found money is "good luck" :)
--BG
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5a. How far do you go with EV?
I was chatting with a fellow VP player about EV and he mentioned that he was finding himself doing "EV" calculations in his daily life (restaurant choices, driving routes, etc).
VP has done that for me as well, and here's an example. I stopped picking up nickels and dimes from the ground about two years ago. And I soon will reach the point where I will stop picking up quarters.
I have occasional back issues, and it "goes out" about once a year. I figure if I bend down to pick up a dime 1,000 times over the long-term, I will most certainly throw out my back at least once doing so. $100 is far outweighed by the suffering of one such incident. So a dime on the floor represents significant negative EV for me.
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