In an episode of the sitcom Seinfeld, Elaine Benes uses a contraceptive sponge that gets taken off the market.She scours pharmacies in the neighborhood to stock a large supply, but it is finite. So she must re-evaluate her whole screening process. Every time she dates a new man, which happens very frequently, she has to consider a new issue: Is he "spongeworthy"? The purpose of this article is to quantify this concept of spongeworthiness.Who ever said economics is the dismal science?
Link from over at the freakonomics blog.
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