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[–] criitz@reddthat.com 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Some marketing strategies are pseudoscience, but this one isn't.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Does anyone in the thread have actual info to back this up?

[–] SuperEars@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

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 -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You should be able to find various tests and studies of this phenomenon on Google

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] criitz@reddthat.com 0 points 1 day ago

It's a yes but find it yourself