首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
If you were told that a particularly delicious-looking ice-cream cone (圆筒) contained dangerous chemicals, then told soon after t
If you were told that a particularly delicious-looking ice-cream cone (圆筒) contained dangerous chemicals, then told soon after t
admin
2012-07-05
63
问题
If you were told that a particularly delicious-looking ice-cream cone (圆筒) contained dangerous chemicals, then told soon after that it was safe to eat after all, would you still choose it for dessert? So far, studies by behavioural economists have suggested that people have a hard time unlearning (忘记) what they have previously been told, even after being ordered to do so. But Uri Simonsohn, a professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania, has a forthcoming paper suggesting that some consumers, at least, are indeed capable of letting go of wrong information.
Mr. Simonsohn started by having to dismiss wrong information himself. In early 2007, shortly after he and his wife had bought a car seat for their first child, Consumer Reports magazine published a ranking of car seats according to safety. Unfortunately, the magazine had messed up its usually thorough testing procedure, with cars being crashed at much higher speeds than advertised. At a 35-mph side-impact crash, the structure of the car seat can make a difference: at 70 mph, the infant’s safety depends much more on the structure of the car. Two weeks later, Consumer Reports issued a retraction (收回声明): several car seat brands (including the Simonsohns’) were safer than the original rankings suggested. Mr. Simonsohn tracked online auctions of car seats after both the initial rankings and the retractions, to see how prices were affected. The car seats falsely charged with poor performance saw their prices drop, then rebound quickly. By contrast, one seat, which failed both Consumer Reports’ original and revised tests, continued to sell more cheaply after the retraction was issued. The car-seat buyers were apparently able to disregard the flawed rankings and pay attention to the correct information.
It helps, Mr. Simonsohn admits, that both the original rankings and the retraction were widely publicised: child-safety issues attract headlines. That the retraction was made swiftly may also have focussed consumers’ attention: a time lapse of months or more might have affected sales more profoundly.
What was Uri Simonsohn’s idea?
选项
A、Some consumers can unlearn the wrong information.
B、Everyone can be able to dismiss the wrong information.
C、Car seats for children are unsafe.
D、People should not believe Consumer Reports magazine.
答案
A
解析
事实细节题。根据定位句可知,Simonsohn教授的观点是一些消费者确实能够忘掉那些有误的信息,故答案为A)。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/8957777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
Themoretimechildrenspendwatchingtelevisionthepoorertheyperformacademically,accordingtothreestudiespublishedonM
Themoretimechildrenspendwatchingtelevisionthepoorertheyperformacademically,accordingtothreestudiespublishedonM
Forthispart,youareallowedthirtyminutestowriteacompositiononthetopicHuntingforaJobonInternet.Youshouldwrit
A、Itwasnothingmorethanalistofhardwords.B、Itdefinedeasywordsaswellasdifficultones.C、Itcontainedgoodsentence
Thedancersstandmotionlessattheirpositionandtheroomgrowssilent.Butasthemusicstarts,theybegantomove,bending,
AcademicFreedomreferstotherightofteachersandresearchers,particularlyincollegesanduniversities,toinvestigatethei
Whatmakesshipwreckdivingappealingisalsowhatmakesitsodangerous.Wrecks,forexample,cansinktoextremedepths.TheA
Troubledbythepersistentlypoorgraduationratesofbasketballandfootballplayers,theNationalCollegiateAthleticAssociat
Whentheearthwasborntherewasnoocean.Thegraduallycoolingearthwasenvelopedinheavylayersofcloud,which【S1】______m
Whentheearthwasborntherewasnoocean.Thegraduallycoolingearthwasenvelopedinheavylayersofcloud,which【S1】______m
随机试题
TheWestLaketodayisnolongerwhatitusedtobesomeyearsago.
本病可诊为:内治方药为:
磺脲类降糖药主要适用于
关于矿井开拓方式的说法,正确的是()。
下列各项不属于区域政策法规的重大变化中的相关警示信号的是()。
游客投诉的心理包括()。
依次填人横线处的词语,最恰当的一组是()。(1)有人说日本汽车比德国汽车更舒适,也有人说德国汽车比日本汽车更稳重,但这_____只是个人的不同感受,购车人还是要亲自驾驶一下才能作出判断。(2)世界上生产维生素C最先进的两步发酵法
左边给定的是纸盒的外表面,下列哪一项能由它折叠而成?
患儿,女,7岁。被蜜蜂蜇伤面部2h,此时错误处理方法是()。
已知数组arr的定义如下:intarr[5]={1,2,3,4,5};下列语句中输出结果不是5的是
最新回复
(
0
)