Earlier quoted context omitted.
Giving up several hundreds in ticket revenue to make 1-2 people 30% more likely to buy a drink...
You could give people a free drink card before the flight. Problem solved.
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Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (2014)
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Re: Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (2014)
#22It gets worse. You are x% more likely to buy food if you just see or smell it, without even a "peer" enjoying it. Isn't that horrifying? That must be called something like food-pressure.
Re: Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (2014)
#23Makes me think airlines will soon start strategically placing "purchasers" throughout the plane in order to maximize the effect of this social pressure.
Lots of comments about this not being cost viable for the airlines to give up seats for these purchasers, but I read your remark a different way - the airlines will note which passengers purchase products on planes, and adjust where these passengers automatic seat selections put them in future - combining them with other data that they have on their customers (e.g. frequency of flights, if they're with children, etc) to try and maximise probability of purchases and influencing more people to purchase over time.
Anecdotally, the people sat next to me on my last flight purchased wine, which resulted in me getting a mini-bottle too. Doh!
Re: Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (2014)
#24This is why certain groups have such a strong interest in controlling twitter, facebook, google, etc. Most people simply go along with what they perceive as the majority opinion. This used to take the form of doing whate everyone around you does, which is why political views tended to group up so much by community. But we no longer have communities, we no longer speak to actual people, especially not about anything l…
> But we no longer have communities, we no longer speak to actual people, especially not about anything like politics.
Oh but we do have communities, and we do talk to actual people (also about politics!) - it's just no longer strongly tied to your location. Blame the invention of the telephone, that lets you stay in touch with your family and friends at long distances, and the invention of the car, that lets you visit them often.
Re: Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (2014)
#25This is why certain groups have such a strong interest in controlling twitter, facebook, google, etc. Most people simply go along with what they perceive as the majority opinion. This used to take the form of doing whate everyone around you does, which is why political views tended to group up so much by community. But we no longer have communities, we no longer speak to actual people, especially not about anything l…
> But we no longer have communities, we no longer speak to actual people, especially not about anything like politics. Oh but we do have communities, and we do talk to actual people (also about politics!) - it's just no longer strongly tied to your location. Blame the invention of the telephone, that lets you stay in touch with your family and friends at long distances, and the invention of the car, that lets you vis…
>Oh but we do have communities, and we do talk to actual people (also about politics!)
No, we don't. Communities have bonds. Seeing facebook spam is not the same as talking to a person, and joining a group of people who post likeminded facebook spam is not a community. It just scratches the same instinctual itch as a community.
>Blame the invention
Blame has nothing to do with it. Understanding how and why people control information to manipulate the public and undermine democracy is important. Trying to blame dead people for technology they invented is not.
Re: Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (2014)
#26The article is from 2014 and it is about a paper studying "social effects in consumption" in a controlled situation (i.e. while you are stuck in an airplane), and another paper about social influences of high schoolers signing up for an SAT prep class. While the studies are interesting, it is hardly worthy of the click-bait title. TL;DR if you sit next to someone on an airplane who buys a drink you are 30% more likel…
The original title was also more accurate. The experiment involved neither "pressure" nor "peers".
Yeah, have to agree with louprado here. The 'People around you control your mind' although a bit more entertaining and click baity is actually more accurate than 'peer' or 'pressure'.
Re: Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (2014)
#27It gets worse. You are x% more likely to buy food if you just see or smell it, without even a "peer" enjoying it. Isn't that horrifying? That must be called something like food-pressure.
Why would I buy invisible, non-smelling food?
Re: Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (2014)
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But we no longer have communities, we no longer speak to actual people, especially not about anything like politics. Oh but we do have communities, and we do talk to actual people (also about politics!) - it's just no longer strongly tied to your location. Blame the invention of the telephone, that lets you stay in touch with your family and friends at long distances, and the invention of the car, that lets you vis…
>Oh but we do have communities, and we do talk to actual people (also about politics!) No, we don't. Communities have bonds. Seeing facebook spam is not the same as talking to a person, and joining a group of people who post likeminded facebook spam is not a community. It just scratches the same instinctual itch as a community. >Blame the invention Blame has nothing to do with it. Understanding how and why people con…
> No, we don't. Communities have bonds. Seeing facebook spam is not the same as talking to a person, and joining a group of people who post likeminded facebook spam is not a community. It just scratches the same instinctual itch as a community.
You and I may be using Facebook differently. I'm not thinking about random Facebook groups and news feeds of people you don't even remember. But e.g. for me, there are people with whom, due to temporal and geographical constraints, Facebook (both site and Messenger) is the primary means of communication, and said communication is frequent and often deep. It's just another tool, not unlike the phone or telegram or paper mail.
> Understanding how and why people control information to manipulate the public and undermine democracy is important.
How: with free speech.
Why: because they have goals they want to achieve.
This actually is democracy working as designed - people being free to bullshit one another. The hope might have been that bullshitting from different actors will cancel out, but that doesn't generally work due to, among other things, simple randomness.
Re: Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (2014)
#29It gets worse. You are x% more likely to buy food if you just see or smell it, without even a "peer" enjoying it. Isn't that horrifying? That must be called something like food-pressure.
Around here we just call that Cinnabon.
Re: Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (2014)
#30It gets worse. You are x% more likely to buy food if you just see or smell it, without even a "peer" enjoying it. Isn't that horrifying? That must be called something like food-pressure.
Perhaps it's just priming?