{"id":496,"date":"2006-03-02T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T14:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=496"},"modified":"2006-03-02T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T14:56:09","slug":"does-advertising-erode-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/03\/02\/does-advertising-erode-free-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Does advertising erode free will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah&#8230;now here&#8217;s the nub of the argument: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2006\/q06_2.html#shirky\">advertisements erode free will, they are manipulations designed to subvert conscious judgement<\/a> (I paraphrase Clay Shirky at Edge.org). Shirky mentions one particular judgement bias, that of super-sizing, but the general form of bias should be familiar to anyone who has been reading Mind Hacks, and\/or my recent posts about avertising (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/the_price_is_right_r.html\">like this one<\/a>). Quoting Shirky<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nConsider the phenomenon of &#8216;super-sizing&#8217;, where a restaurant patron is offered the chance to increase the portion size of their meal for some small amount of money. This presents a curious problem for the concept of free will <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah&#8230;now here&#8217;s the nub of the argument: advertisements erode free will, they are manipulations designed to subvert conscious judgement (I paraphrase Clay Shirky at Edge.org). Shirky mentions one particular judgement bias, that of super-sizing, but the general form of bias should be familiar to anyone who has been reading Mind Hacks, and\/or my recent posts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-80","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}