Bad options are great influencers
by Stii
I just watched this fascinating TEDTalk video by Dan Ariely titled “Are we in control of our decisions?”. What is interesting is the experiments he’s done. What it boils down to is that if you give someone options to choose, by adding a crap option you can influence people’s decision. It is also quite scary to see how easily we can be influenced. How we trust other people like doctors to make life altering decisions when they can just as easily be influenced.
On the talk itself, highly entertaining! Enjoy it, you will :) Trust me, it is 20 minutes well spent!
I love this way of thinking, like slowing a site down before relaunching so the new site seems faster (which I don’t condone *whistle*)
Sneaky dude… I’ll *never* condone stuff like that! (Stii: saves Neil’s comment to favorites…)