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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

How the Anchoring Effect Messes Up Your Purchases and Estimates

...David McRaney runs the excellent You Are No So Smart blog, but in earlier days, he sold leather coats that, while seemingly priced at around $1,000, he'd offer "on sale" for $400 and quickly move out the door. That's the anchoring effect—someone suggests a number, then gives you another number to consider, and you can't help but base your opinion of the second number on the first.

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