Click on the link below for an interesting podcast looking at the psychological manipulations being used by virtually all advertisers:
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Sunday, December 11, 2022
Can You Spot The Logical Fallacies In Advertising?
"I don't want to shock anyone, but here's a piece of frightful news: Sometimes products are marketed using fallacious logic. That's different from lying about your product; marketing with logical fallacies is a way to make your product sound great by appealing to our natural tendencies to be susceptible to fallacious logic. Tell us something about your product that sounds persuasive — regardless of whether it's actually a real merit or not — and we get all impressed. Today we're going to look at the practice of spotting logical fallacies in the marketing of products, and we might even try doing a little of it ourselves."
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