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Are shoppers disproportionately more likely to buy an item if it costs $3.95 (compared to $4.00)?
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The origin of "99 cents"
I find that there are disproportionately many price tags that say $3.95, $69.99, $198, etc. See amazon.com for example. I suppose the sellers do this because they are hoping that it will attract…
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Is Israel exporting 100s-of-Millions, or Billions, USD of arms per year?
A multi-annual chart on the "trading economies website suggests Israeli arms exports have a "total insurable value" of hundreds of millions of USD per year.
However, this story on the global defense corp site suggests arms exports are in the…
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Do large companies pay for shills?
On many forums and sites facilitating discussion, whenever the topic of consumerism is raised (eg. Android over iOS), there is a common accusation that one of the parties is a shill - someone paid to present an argument in favour of a corporation,…
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Is it true that besides Volkswagen, many other car companies also similarly cheated in the emission test but faced limited consequences?
The Volkswagen emission cheating is well-known at this stage. However, I heard some people say that many other car manufacturers have actually been performing similar cheating in emission tests.
Last year, Fiat Chrysler was also found cheating, but…
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