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Yes I'm sure you've never once seen an ad for a food or drink you already like, and then later purchased that food or drink because you started craving it over a period of a few hours. I'm sure you've never seen an ad for something you were already thinking of buying and then later bought it because the ad reminded you of it. Because you're the one human in existence that is absolutely 100% impervious to any kind of influence whatsoever. What is it even like to be so confidently incorrect? Do you even think you've ever been wrong a single time about anything? That level of confidence is so foreign to me, I cannot fathom what it could possibly feel like.
Correct. I am that person.
I have a feeling that overconfidence is an issue for you
It's not overconfidence to know that I don't listen to ads. Even if they are playing near me, I drown it out with my own hatred for them. If I don't hear or see them, how do they affect me, precisely?
These posts are always about GENERALITIES in human behavior. Not the extreme ends or random differences. And yet there are always hordes of people claiming that EVERY SINGLE HUMAN ALIVE reacts the same to advertising.
What overconfidence you have in your own knowledge of the human mind that you can tell me about my own.
So you don't believe in subtlety or that you might ever miss something. Yikes.
That's pretty insane and obviously no one is even remotely claiming that. If that were true then every ad campaign would have either a 100% success or failure rate. Given that you could just use a focus single person to try things out on, then every single ad campaign would work on every human. Tell me who is claiming this?
Yes I'm extremely "overconfident" because I claim that both you and I can be manipulated. Something so obviously true it's silly id ever need to say it.
You are claiming that humans are all susceptible to advertising. If that is not the case then there are those that are not affected, and those that are. I am claiming that the majority may be susceptible to it, but not everyone. You are adamant that I am wrong.