Is it a statistical artifact, however, or a genuine intellectual one? That is, those who genuinely have no clue whatsoever in regard to the number of UN nations in Africa might take information about it as a weak sort of evidence—I don’t know, so I’ll go with a figure I’ve encountered that is associated with this question. Similarly, someone who is not familiar with pricing may see a “Limit 12” and believe, because of the presence of the sign, that the pricing—regardless of what it is, because they don’t have comparative information—is extremely good.
Which is to say, your examples may come from subject-matter ignorance rather than priming, and conceptual priming may not be quite as contaminative as these studies suggest.
Is it a statistical artifact, however, or a genuine intellectual one? That is, those who genuinely have no clue whatsoever in regard to the number of UN nations in Africa might take information about it as a weak sort of evidence—I don’t know, so I’ll go with a figure I’ve encountered that is associated with this question. Similarly, someone who is not familiar with pricing may see a “Limit 12” and believe, because of the presence of the sign, that the pricing—regardless of what it is, because they don’t have comparative information—is extremely good.
Which is to say, your examples may come from subject-matter ignorance rather than priming, and conceptual priming may not be quite as contaminative as these studies suggest.