Monday, December 15, 2008

Ad Populum

Posted by Free Host at 1:15 PM
“Everyone uses and loves this product!” Making a product claim like this is a tried-and-true advertising technique. It’s hoped that you will take others’ approval as a good enough reason to buy the product, too. Falling for this is a fallacy of logic called Ad Populum (“appeal to popularity”) — going along with what’s popular. It’s right out of high school. So, when a media release went
 

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