in her january 25, 2015, column savant answered the question: "suppose you have a job offer with a choice of two annual salaries. one is $30,000 with a $1,000 raise every year. the other is $30,000 with a $300 raise every six months. which option is best in the long run?" savant claimed that the semi-annual $300 raises were better than the annual $1000 raise. comments of a reader of her webpage pointed out that this was the same puzzle she presented many years ago, and that it was addressed by cecil adams' column "the straight dope" in 1992. at that time adams wrote, "her response is 100 percent correct. it's just not necessarily the answer to the question she was asked."