Today's post is not really a deep analysis of any certain social behavior but rather a simple observation about a very common phenomena.
It occurred to me to write about favoring Pepsi over Coca Cola or vise versa after a deep discussion with a friend of mine in the US about the effect of propaganda on people's decisions and after personally experiencing several occasions where people point out strongly that they favor one over the other. The following also applies to other similar products and I really never understood why many people are so picky about their choices when I comes to that.
I always asked myself the following question: If one has four cups, two filled with Pepsi and another two filled with Coca Cola, Will it be possible for someone to point out the difference?
In several occasions I was present where people always argued on which one tastes better and I thought that people talk about it out of deficiency of other fruitful conversations. Guess what? It turned out that I was wrong about one thing but right about the other. Yes, people talk about that due to the lack of fruitful conversations but actually they might be right about the difference in taste that is not that obvious to me. Check the following link where an experiment about the difference in taste was conducted at http://syntheticremarks.com/?p=926.
However, other sources agree with me on the difficulty to distinguish between the two and that none is better than the other but rather slightly different. Moreover, the difference in taste is not worth paying for one more than the other as it is the case in many countries. Thus it is all a game of a well implemented media campaign.
To summarize, it doesn't make sense to really feel strongly about favoring one of the two. If both are available, then yes choose the one you like but if the presence is exclusive to one of th two, just get any.
It occurred to me to write about favoring Pepsi over Coca Cola or vise versa after a deep discussion with a friend of mine in the US about the effect of propaganda on people's decisions and after personally experiencing several occasions where people point out strongly that they favor one over the other. The following also applies to other similar products and I really never understood why many people are so picky about their choices when I comes to that.
I always asked myself the following question: If one has four cups, two filled with Pepsi and another two filled with Coca Cola, Will it be possible for someone to point out the difference?
In several occasions I was present where people always argued on which one tastes better and I thought that people talk about it out of deficiency of other fruitful conversations. Guess what? It turned out that I was wrong about one thing but right about the other. Yes, people talk about that due to the lack of fruitful conversations but actually they might be right about the difference in taste that is not that obvious to me. Check the following link where an experiment about the difference in taste was conducted at http://syntheticremarks.com/?p=926.
However, other sources agree with me on the difficulty to distinguish between the two and that none is better than the other but rather slightly different. Moreover, the difference in taste is not worth paying for one more than the other as it is the case in many countries. Thus it is all a game of a well implemented media campaign.
To summarize, it doesn't make sense to really feel strongly about favoring one of the two. If both are available, then yes choose the one you like but if the presence is exclusive to one of th two, just get any.
make your own experiment to judge. to me when i was in north america i was always able to tell the difference: pepsi was always sweeter than coke.
ReplyDeleteYes but if you have one today and the other tomorrow, I don't believe it makes such a difference.
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