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They They Know What You Want To Buy
The reason Target can snoop on our shopping habits is that, over the past two decades, the science of habit formation has become a major field of research in neurology and psychology departments at hundreds of major medical centers and universities, as well as inside extremely well financed corporate labs. "It's like an arms race to hire statisticians nowadays," New York Times Magazine 02/19/12
Posted February 17, 2012 07:47 AM




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