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Thanks for the feedback! It would be great if you could post this on http://coglode.com/gems/hedonic-adaptation to spark some conversation.
I didn't realize that each item in your list linked to another page with more elaboration until I saw your previous comment.
Round Price Preference Yes, please, let's stop the 99.99 crap. And with sales tax the point is moot Even better, let's not have more than 3 significant digits on prices (ok, maybe 4 or 5 for high value items)
Round Price Preference Yes, please, let's stop the 99.99 crap. And with sales tax the point is moot Even better, let's not have more than 3 significant digits on prices (ok, maybe 4 or 5 for high value items)
(Hello from Israel) it's a new law around here that forces marketers to publish prices as a multiplier of 0.05
FWIW, I couldn't get it to load in Firefox. Switching over to Chrome worked in case anyone runs into the same problem.
I find a lot of this interesting and plausible, but have to take issue with: > Hedonic Adaptation ... Enjoyment of a television program is actually enhanced by commercial interruptions, despite what viewers say. I haven't read the study cited, so can only imagine the reasoning and data, but I suspect a lot is hanging on the way enjoyment is measured here. One way of measuring it might be to give people a choice betwe…
In other words, it's not really an objective test, since TV programs were built with commercial breaks in-mind.
I find a lot of this interesting and plausible, but have to take issue with: > Hedonic Adaptation ... Enjoyment of a television program is actually enhanced by commercial interruptions, despite what viewers say. I haven't read the study cited, so can only imagine the reasoning and data, but I suspect a lot is hanging on the way enjoyment is measured here. One way of measuring it might be to give people a choice betwe…
Jonathan Haidt touches on this in "The Happiness Hypothesis", though not specifically applying it to TV watching. There's the standard issue of measuring happiness, sure, since it's hard to find other than a self-reported subjective measurement for it. But in general, the principle that what matters most to keep us happy is a steady "upwards trajectory" where things keeps getting somewhat better is getting quite dece…