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Re:Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself by _dwt on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:00PM (#39933026)
As an "unlucky" person, I can't help but wonder: what about an alternative version of the experiment where the newspaper contained the big "This newspaper has 43 photographs" text - followed by 44 photographs?

(This "unlucky" - or perhaps "paranoid" - mindset has, frankly, made me a damn good programmer and debugger.)

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Re:Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself by RobCat27 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:52PM (#39933740)
Especially since commonly followed wisdom seems to be "trust, but verify."
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Re:Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself by curtisblaine on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:51PM (#39933726)
Tbh If I noticed the text(s), I'd still have counted the photos and still looked at every page in case there were other prizes.
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Re:Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself by erehweb on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:59PM (#39933819)
See other top-level comment - direction was to keep counting, and you would indeed have won another prize (although it's unclear whether they actually paid out).
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