This made me want to ask my landlord if I can run some PVC through the ceiling. This has made me think a lot about the marketing of products and how I have little ability to discern what is a meaningful feature/metric. Whatever is plastered on the box looks compelling and important.
Tangential but I saw a frozen pizza box advertising 2-1/2 feet of cheese in the crust. At first glance I was thinking “that’s a lot of cheese” but I started thinking about what it actually meant. It’s a 10” pizza so I’m assuming the 2-1/2 feet just comes from the circumference but just knowing the circumference of the pizza shouldn’t make it more appealing. I don’t measure the food I eat in inches or feet- if anything it would at least be a multi dimensional measurement that could represent the volume of cheese (or more commonly the mass). 2-1/2 feet of cheese could describe both an unnoticeable and lethal amount of cheese depending on the width and depth. It’s just meaningless.
My point is: this article has made me look more closely at product advertisement, as it’s influencing an emotional choice to buy a specific item rather than presenting truly empirical results. My rugs are impossibly dirty and I’ve eaten too much cheese
Tangential but I saw a frozen pizza box advertising 2-1/2 feet of cheese in the crust. At first glance I was thinking “that’s a lot of cheese” but I started thinking about what it actually meant. It’s a 10” pizza so I’m assuming the 2-1/2 feet just comes from the circumference but just knowing the circumference of the pizza shouldn’t make it more appealing. I don’t measure the food I eat in inches or feet- if anything it would at least be a multi dimensional measurement that could represent the volume of cheese (or more commonly the mass). 2-1/2 feet of cheese could describe both an unnoticeable and lethal amount of cheese depending on the width and depth. It’s just meaningless.
My point is: this article has made me look more closely at product advertisement, as it’s influencing an emotional choice to buy a specific item rather than presenting truly empirical results. My rugs are impossibly dirty and I’ve eaten too much cheese