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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by kazinator on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:53PM (#20034280)
The spending on advertizing likely has diminishing returns. The marginal decrease in satisfaction that would come from doubling the spending is possibly smaller than the baseline decrease caused by the initial expenditure.
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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by cm2012 on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @05:05PM (#20034392)
There's nothing in their data to support this, and if the effect was there they would have seen it (since they have yearly happiness data). They describe a linear correlation.
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Re:Advertising as a source of dissatisfaction: cross-nationa... by macleginn on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @01:56AM (#20037181)
They describe a linear correlation because they fitted linear correlation. All kinds of interesting effects could be hidden in the residuals, but they don't show them.
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