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wongarsu • yesterday at 5:19 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

At the scale of a McDonalds ad campaign that seems easy to measure: go to the nearest Target parking lot and ask as many people as you can two questions: "are you vegetarian" and "did you see {description of ad here}". Then compare how which percentage of vegetarians saw the ad compared to the percentage of non-vegetarians saw the ad. There are even companies specialized in market research that will do this in a more representative and statistically rigorous way


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IAmBroom • yesterday at 7:17 PM

Google has no incentive to do so. McDonalds does, but its somewhat costly to scale against ALL the ads they push.

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pocksuppet • yesterday at 8:20 PM

infinite things could confound that analysis