• SuperEars@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          This doesn’t meet the bar you want, but my marketing professor called the .99 idea the single greatest thing to come out of marketing in a century.

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            Sounds about right.

            Marketing hasn’t done anything positive for humanity. It is all just to manipulate people into buying shit they don’t need. It is the main driver for the overconsumption.

        • criitz@reddthat.com
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          You should be able to find various tests and studies of this phenomenon on Google

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      I was watching a PBS documentary about the first humans in the Americas. All the scientists are super cool until you get to the American anthropologist who starts using phrenology to explain why Native American tribes shouldn’t be given repatriation rights, only for a Danish geneticist to say “yeah, this is absolutely a Native American and i am willing to testify to that in any court of law”

      Pseudoscience is still all the rage if it can be used to push a political agenda.