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Re:Why babies cry in the first three months, how to tell the... by PragmaticPulp on Saturday February 19, 2022 @09:02PM (#30402542)
> For example, their techniques that "always work" definitely do not always work.

Among parenting social media influencers, this is a gamble for building rapport among an audience:

Make some extreme claim that may or may not work for some portion of people who hear it. People who hear it, try it, and find that it works will vividly remember the influencer as being correct. People who try it with no results will quickly forget it about it.

Repeat across several claims and eventually some percentage of them will be correct for the audience.

Re:Why babies cry in the first three months, how to tell the... by mason55 on Saturday February 19, 2022 @09:04PM (#30402554)
Like sport betting advice. Make 64 accounts, predict the outcome of six 50/50 games, start a paid newsletter with the one that got them all right.
Re:Why babies cry in the first three months, how to tell the... by redisman on Saturday February 19, 2022 @09:05PM (#30402557)
Often the followers seem to self select. If someone’s advice was crap/didn’t work for you at all, you stop paying attention to them - if it worked you might think they’re a genius
Re:Why babies cry in the first three months, how to tell the... by Fnoord on Sunday February 20, 2022 @10:16AM (#30406335)
Cold reading + advertising = influencer (= a cool word for self-employed marketeer)