No Girls Allowed
Is there any non-anecdotal evidence that marketing has anywhere near the power this article ascribes to it?<p>I hear this a lot lately. Some people believe that media have an almost magical power of shaping culture and behaviours.<p>Beauty? Cosmo propaganda. Boys liking different toys than girls? Marketing.<p>Yet when you dig a little deeper, studies on priming usually get wee p-values and barely significant, temporary changes in behaviour, if any. And when they do show something more, they're impossible to replicate, or straight-up fraud.<p>I don't buy it.