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[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 month ago (4 children)

But it IS how we see prices. If there weren't science behind it, they wouldn't be doing it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

But it IS how we see prices.

I don't. Never did. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Same, I've always just rounded up. Even when it comes to things like .50¢ I still just round it up to the next dollar.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You do though

At some level you will favor the 19.99. You might justify it with some other rational but there will be the bias.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, I dont though.

It really depends on the study you choose to believe into. (No, everyone does it, isn't a pro argument. People always had strange beliefs which later changed. I think it's called major consensus narrative or maybe consensus reality

I like this hill, I'll stay here. Thank you.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No, I really don't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The science is about how you initially react to the number. Your brain will see $19, and immediately you'll think it's $19. Only upon further inspection and processing through your cognition, you recognise that its $19.99, which is basically $20.

It's that initial reaction they want, to grab your attention. Anyone who is going through life without leveraging their higher thinking will fall for this shit. Anyone who thinks, at all, won't.

Unfortunately, there's a nontrivial number of people who fall into that first category. People who were never taught to think. They just do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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