It is totally relevant if you don't know the definition of pessimism. Pssh.

Then you've defeated the point of a hypothetical question that was vague by imposing an extremely specific example.

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recency_effect

ROFL OWNED.

Hey, cool, so I wasn't pulling shit from my head when I was pondering if that was the case. Never knew there was a name for it.
Er. Were you saying(/implying) that poison_us, I, both or neither is/are unaware as to what "pessimism" is? *confused*

You can't let anyone have ANY fun, can you?

The point is poison_us was bring pessimism into the conversation for no reason. You pointed that out, calling irrelevance. I said it would be relevant to someone who didn't know what pessimism meant. So yes I was implying that poison_us didn't know what pessimism meant.

And moose I fail to see how the serial position effect has anything to do with this. I've studied it in psychology in before and it really does not apply unless I'm missing something (maybe I skimmed to fast on the wiki page when I was double checking to see if there was something substantiative there?). People remember things at the beginning and end of lists better than things in the middle of lists... and this, if you want to call it a list, is only two things...?

Skipped reading some posts hurr and thurr.

I always prefer to hear the bad news first. I don't really know why.

All news are relative
But from my point of view, I'd like to hear the bad news first and let the good news cheer me up afterwards.