By Daniel Simons, on October 25th, 2010
Don’t text and fly — a Halloween […]
By The Invisible Gorilla, on October 4th, 2010
Silly claims that hands-free texting would somehow make it safe to text while […]
By Daniel Simons, on October 1st, 2010
The final part of a 4-part series examining what happens when science is used for marketing (using brain-training software as the central example). […]
By Daniel Simons, on September 30th, 2010
The third of a 4-part series examining what happens when science is used for marketing (using brain-training software as the central example). […]
By Daniel Simons, on September 29th, 2010
The second of a 4-part series examining what happens when science is used for marketing (using brain-training software as the central example). […]
By Daniel Simons, on September 28th, 2010
The first of a 4-part series examining what happens when science is used for marketing (using brain-training software as the central example). […]
By The Invisible Gorilla, on September 8th, 2010
Mike Fumento passed along a remarkably silly statistic from this Reuters story about a Harris Interactive survey from a couple years ago. According to the article:
89 percent of respondents believe texting while driving is dangerous and should be outlawed.
Yet,
66 percent of the adults surveyed who drive and use text messaging told pollsters […]
By The Invisible Gorilla, on August 24th, 2010
This is so wrong that if it were April 1, I would assume it is a joke.
heads-up keyboard from Wired article
But it comes from a writer with Gizmodo, one of the best tech sites around, and it was published by Wired. Unless proven otherwise, I have to assume it’s just […]
By Daniel Simons, on August 3rd, 2010
Yesterday I posted about a new, in-press study of choice blindness by Lars Hall, Petter Johansson, and colleagues. Their new study extended the phenomenon of choice blindness to real world taste decisions made by shoppers in a market. Read more about it in yesterday’s post entitled “Do you know what you like.”
Here […]
By Daniel Simons, on August 2nd, 2010
Do you know what you like? (Don’t) think […]
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