Why Conventional Wisdom is Often Wrong & How Others Shape You Thoughts and Actions
Something You Should Know
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Are We a Little More Set in Our Ways?
A group at face books, actually, o a series of former students from stamford, looked at on people's decisions to buy houses. And what they found was that we imitate our friends there too. A five % increase in that friend's house value would lead me, in terms of now averages, to be three per cent more likely to buy a house. The boston market and the california market have almost nothing to do with each other. So one amazing thing about the study was, you know, the friend who lives down the street from me has just the same amount of influence as the friend in boston or toledo, or aston texas or alaska
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