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Date: 2008-Aug-20, Wednesday 13:19 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com
Re: the bad science article. I hope you noted this comment:

maybe there’s another factor at work here:

- If the advice is free then in some senses you loose nothing by taking it, and it might mean you realise your answer was in fact wrong, so you might as well take it all the time (and ignore it if you think it’s wrong)

- If the advice needs to be paid for, then if you’re certain of the answer then you won’t buy it - so you’ll only buy it when you’re unsure. If you’re blindly guessing then you might as well go for the answer you’ve paid for, since it’s got to be better than nothing

Which I think means you’d expect to see people following the paid advice more often - not because they rate the paid advice higher, but because they’ve only bought it when they need it.

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