On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:17:38 +0000 (UTC), Andy > wrote:

>Mark Thorson said...
>
>> Quoing from:
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12...you_want_macs/
>>
>> The two salesman-academics ran a study which
>> involved giving one group of people a chocolate
>> truffle, and asking another group to be strong
>> and abstain. It appears that scoffing just one
>> fancy choc, according to the profs, tends to
>> unleash a "what the hell" syndrome. The truffle-
>> gobblers then feel a strong desire for more
>> treats - for instance ice cream, pizza, and
>> potato chips - while the puritanical group found
>> it easy to spurn any further delicious but
>> possibly nutritionally unwise offerings.
>>
>> If that was all, frankly we wouldn't have
>> bothered you. But it's not.
>>
>> "A second study again had people eat or resist
>> a chocolate truffle and asked them to indicate
>> how much they desired several products that are
>> symbols of status [for example] an Apple
>> computer... People who ate the truffle desired
>> the status products significantly more than
>> those who had to resist the truffle," write
>> Laran and Janiszewski.
>
>
>Cheapskate study!!!
>
>Should've used real summer or winter truffles.
>
>The BUMS!!!
>
>Imho,

You know any study can be skewed... but the food study would fit my
family pretty well. FYI: I think it's unprofessional to call someone
who can resist chocolate truffles "puritanical". No real study would
do that.




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interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

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