Okay, you win.
It is not worth going to war about.
(I can be magnanimous. Especially since I am right.) ;-)

On 16/08/2014 16:15, clipka wrote:
> Am 16.08.2014 10:53, schrieb Stephen:
>
>>> The candidates' task was to walk as straight as possible with limited
>>> information; whether people tend to veer to the left or right in such a
>>> circumstance says nothing about whether they prefer to walk left or
>>> right turns when walking in a circle deliberately.
>>>
>>
>> True but it shows that there is little bias to turn away from their
>> strong leg.
>
> No, all it shows is that when tasked with walking in a straight line,
> their compensation for any such bias they may or may not have works even
> when blindfolded.
>
>>> The tendency of people to prefer walking left turns over right turns has
>>> long been identified by /the/ one most motivated, well-funded and
>>> experienced branch of applied behavioural science of all: Marketing
>>> analysis. Shops are arranged on this basis, and it works.
>>>
>> Sources that it works? (and not psychobabble, please).
>> If shops had paths that wound to the right. I suspect that they would
>> still sell things.
>
> Yeah, but it's one of the little tweaks by which they influence /what/
> they sell (to an average person; they don't care much about
> individualists) - and also how much. Like that old trick to put the milk
> way at the back, because almost everyone has milk on their shopping
> list, so they make you walk past all the other goods that you might not
> have thought about when you made the list.
>
>> It sounds like juju to me. "Give me money and I will make you more mony
>> than you now have."
>
> I've first heard that a quarter of a century ago, at a time when - or so
> it seems to me - juju wasn't state of the art. Besides, it's such a
> trivial thing that you can't really "sell" that idea - and the shop
> owner can easily check whether it has any effect or not.
>
>
>>>>> So from a psychological point of view, to
>>>>> an otherwise unbiased person it will come more natural to make U-turns
>>>>> to the left rather than to the right.
>>>>
>>>> :-O
>>>
>>> Yup. Fortunately for you people on the island, you're all being biased
>>> during driving lessons :-)
>>
>> This is true as is the reverse.
>
> Sure. But my point is that the continental bias is more natural :-)
>
>> And before you or anyone else says it. I have often heard that I am
>> weird. And I play on that.
>> I suspect that there are a few people on this newsgroup that have been
>> been labelled weird or strange.
>
> Which, as far as I'm concerned, is a compliment.
>


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Regards
     Stephen

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