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Psychologists are researching the wrong thing
July 24, 2008 by Anonymous, 1 year 15 weeks ago
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Interesting, but the advertisers already seem to know how to con people into wasting money on lottery tickets. In my area they are constantly mentioning all the expensive thing you could buy if you won. Just another way of making people feel poorer than they are.
Neither is encouraging poor people to put money into bank accounts worthwhile. The kind of interest rates they can get are far below the inflation rate. So any money put away is being wasted. It would be better to encourage them to put the money where their mouth is in the form of healthier food. Or encouraged to get more schooling.
Better yet, how about psychologists studying how to get politicians to start doing things for the populace they claim to be serving instead of helping those who are giving them "campaign donations" and such.