People tend to think something is important if it’s secret,” says Michael Norton, a marketing professor at Harvard Business School. “Studies find that we give greater credence to information if we’ve been told it was once ‘classified.’
I once saw “sponsored link” ad that promised a “weird old investing trick that Obama doesn’t want you to know about.”
I once saw “sponsored link” ad that promised a “weird old investing trick that Obama doesn’t want you to know about.”
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The weirdest “one weird trick” I’ve ever saw claimed that 83% of the male population has a penis size smaller than the average.
There’s a joke about long tails in there somewhere.
That’s just because they made the mistake of oversampling the town that all the Lake Wobegon residents emigrated from.