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> Olson says you are twice as likely to choose from the very top or very bottom of the menu – because those areas first attract your eye.

Unless you're a vegetarian and there's one option tucked away on page 2.

Which illustrates one way of countering these sorts of manipulation tricks: a very slight offset from the mainstream.

If you find that when you're looking for a product you only end-up with one option that meets your requirements, or perhaps even only one that only partially meets them, then you're pretty much unsusceptible to 'buy this now' pressure.



Yeah but then you're paying $15 for a salad because the restaurantier knows you are stuck with it when your friends dragged you to that restuarant :(




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