Mathematical Formula Predicts the Perfect Toy

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See, there's nothing that math cannot do!

It's rather simple form of psychohistory! Those must be the first Laws of Humanics.

You Might Be An Aspie If You think mathematical formulas and Prime-Generating Polynomials are the most wonderful toys

that sounds utterly ridiculous .
that "formula" was made up by a psychologist,
who understands that while the formula isn't worth anything,
the power of suggestion IS.

I mean, really, what does the SQUARE ROOT of cost have to do with anything?
wow

The square root of cost introduces the "value for money" concept.

If two toys have equal play value, then the less expensive toy is the better choice.

Math can still do anything! For those who disagree, I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Then the tube from the center of a roll of toilet paper is a better toy, of greater intrinsic value, than a motorized toy car. My son will play with that tube for hours, in a variety of ways; when friends bring their children over, the kids fight over the tube. The car is played with for perhaps an hour or two a week, and since it's a car, there are only so many uses it can have (while the tube is a telescope, a cell phone, a megaphone, a stand to hold toys, and probably a lot of other things he hasn't told me about yet).

Regardless of the result of the equation, every kid I have ever met ends up playing with the box the toy came in...

Satire win.

The most important aspect of a toy is that it is tied in with a television show on Nickelodeon or Disney, or some other commercial entity, so kids will want to watch the shows and buy more products. And that it has a picture of Hanna Montana on it somewhere.