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."

Click on the link below for an interesting podcast looking at the psychological manipulations being used by virtually all advertisers: 

Marketing with Logical Fallacies

If A Statement Feels Good, Does That Make It True?

 "If you repeat something enough times, it comes to feel good and true."

The above statement is a key to understanding the success of both advertisements and indoctrination. Click on the link below for a brief video showing that the ways information is presented to us can significantly affect how we interpret such.

The Illusion of Truth

Advertising And Lies

"What does a company mean when they claim their product is the 'world’s best?' Usually nothing. Step into the weird world of advertising puffery."

Click on the link below:

The "Lies" Advertisers Can Legally Tell You

Medicare Advantage Plans: Let The Buyer Beware

Advertisements for these products are overwhelming the advertisements for the traditional Medicare Supplemental Plans. While there are pros and cons in both, this brief article will make you at least a little more educated in the matter.

How easy it is to be misled by Medicare Advantage plans