But after this week, it was apparent that so far at least, the answer has not been found.
But one big media company is undertaking just such an exercise in reverse psychology, with apparent success so far.
There are always lags in the economic response to the Fed's moves, but the failure of the Fed to have any apparent impact so far remains surprising.
The family of Blanco, a Cambridge graduate, are understood to be frustrated at the police's apparent failure so far to question all potential witnesses, and a refusal to go beyond describing the death as "unexplained".
But for some, its apparent impotence so far is chillingly reminiscent of the failure of the Japanese authorities to halt the catastrophic slide in property prices that dragged the country into a decade-long recession in the 1990s.
Despite these apparent findings, so far there is little quantitative evidence on effectiveness and efficiency of iML-algorithms.
We discuss how environmental psychologists empirically studied these four topics, identify apparent shortcomings so far, and indicate major issues for future research.
The apparent failure so far of the Wii-U to take off versus competition from tablet and smart phone game applications may bode ill for the company's long-term growth prospects.
