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Finally, an Ad Campaign Aimed At Monkeys
TaeKwonDood writes "Does sex sell for monkeys the way it does humans? Apparently so. And researchers are now hoping sexy billboards can cause monkeys to prefer a flavor of Jell-O they otherwise do not."
just sayin'
Did I mistakenly load an idle story? Sorry, haven't been here in while.
...to see monkeys aim at an ad campaign.
GEICO has already been selling insurance to monkeys for quite sometime now
When I pictured an ad using sex to sell jell-o, I pictured a jell-o fight between two attractive females. That was an awesome thought.
Then I pictured the same ad, but with monkeys. That was a less awesome thought.
I don't think I want jell-o anymore :(
If what I just said sounded like a troll, it was probably just a failed attempt at humor.
Thats cruel, evil, even (or maybe, specially) inhuman. Where is PETA? Greenpeace? Is that humanity will never stop finding new ways to torture animals?
They said in the New Scientist article (linked from TFA) that they cannot show the ads "until the study is finished". I think there's a message about who they think the scientific community is, somewhere in that statement.
That is all.
http://youtu.be/vhbki3LtxPs
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Does sex sell for monkeys the way it does humans?
Of course, it does. I know this is a *slightly* different question, but it has already largely been asked a long time ago. Almost a decade ago, researches at Yale were studying monkeys learning to use money. They taught them to use currency to buy fruit and jello. They then discovered that monkeys would use money to buy favors. And not long after that, they discovered that the females would start prostituting themselves to the males, in return for money and then they would use the money to go buy treats for themselves, after the sex.
It would only seem entirely logical that they would, therefore, have similar reactions to sex used in "marketing".
Is anyone else picturing the Statue of Liberty barely sticking out of a sandy beach?
In the distance you hear an ominous moo.
And was disappointed.
Scientists report that scientists are testing monkeys to see if the monkeys would make good scientists. This would save money because the monkey scientists perform the experiments on themselves. However, it's not all good news though. Some scientists are going to be out of a job, unless, of course, they happen to be monkeys. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOxYKuaUqt8#t=31s
While she may have had some valid things to say, they were vastly overshadowed by her example where she kept pointing out things that functioned exactly as designed and where no mistakes were made, and claiming that because they were bad for the unwashed masses, that they must have been mistakes.
Her basic premise was a mistake.
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It's a big duh that funds are only available to research what turns on MALE monkeys. And equally clear that the other primates posting comments were wearing their issued-at-birth "Females exist as people and potential equals?" blinders. But hey, no matter--who really cares what female primates want, anyway?
um, they used alpha males as well. they did two sets of ads.
at least read the summary.
seriously, light beer commercials are the most brain-dead things I have ever seen. How else are you going to sell that crap?
It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
This just means that after teaching them how to use money, we'll have to teach them how to timeshift past all those annoying commercials.
At first I thought this was an acknowledgement of the poltical season being in full swing. Thankfully, this does not yet hold true, and we're actually talking about monkeys.
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I doubt they'd be worried about the scientific part, if there wasn't a part of the ad where they did the exact same test with humans to compare.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
in the marketing department was doing there lately. It appears he's the new manager there.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN6ejvcV9Vs
This sounds like something Cave Johnson would come up with.
It's a big duh that funds are only available to research what turns on MALE monkeys.
... and female bonobos...
Well the Fox executives should be pleased. Someone else is doing their market research for them.....