SYSK Choice: What Really Influences Your Buying Decisions & The Odds of Bad Things Happening

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Education, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Science, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 30 November 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Can your pet really get sick eating poinsettia leaves or drinking Christmas tree water? We begin this episode looking at some of the real holiday pet hazards and some you don’t really need to worry about. http://www.paws.org/library/pet-info/pet-care/holiday-hazards/ Not long ago you most likely would choose a TV or a computer or even grocery items because of the name brand. That has a changed a lot of the last several years thanks to things like online ratings and reviews. Here to discuss this evolution is Itamar Simonson, professor of marketing at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and author of the book Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information (https://amzn.to/2Dl5dfW) Why is it that you can freeze your leftovers once – but only once? What’s so bad about freezing them again? I will explain the science of once is enough when it comes to freezing food. http://www.bonappetit.com/story/when-can-you-refreeze-food What are the odds you will be struck by lightning? What are the odds that your online dating partner lied about his or her age, height, weight or even marital status? What are the odds you’ll be injured by duct tape? The odds of things happening to you are very different than you might imagine. Joining me to discuss some of these interesting facts, stories and statistics is Amram Shapiro, author of The Book of Odds: From Lightning Strikes to Love at First Sight, the Odds of Everyday Life (https://amzn.to/34usiZI). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on something you should know, is your pet really going to get sick if they eat a
0:06.0	point-setty a plant or drink the Christmas tree water?
0:09.0	Also, how we decide what to buy has changed and changed for the better.
0:14.0	If you were buying a computer in 1999, you assessment probably was influenced by the brand name,
0:21.0	but the price, where it was made, all kinds of quality proxies.
0:26.0	Those proxies often are very inaccurate.
0:29.0	Also today, why it's okay to freeze leftovers once, but not twice.
0:34.0	And the amazing odds of living everyday life, like what are the real odds you'll get hit by lightning?
0:40.0	The odds of being struck by lightning are really one and a million or a little bit more than that.
0:45.0	And actually, your odds of surviving a lightning stricter, one in one point one, or 90 percent.
0:50.0	And those are the same odds as the households as a Bible, that a person is right handed.
0:55.0	All this today on something you should know.
1:01.0	Something you should know, fascinating intel, the world's top experts,
1:06.0	and practical advice you can use in your life today.
1:10.0	Something you should know, with Mike Karothers.
1:14.0	Hey, and welcome to the weekend edition of something you should know this week.
1:19.0	Now that we're in the holiday season, people will start to decorate and get ready for Christmas.
1:24.0	And if you have pets, there are some precautions you need to take.
1:28.0	First of all, you've probably heard that point-setty of plants can harm pets if they're eaten.
1:34.0	The truth is, though, that a human or an animal would have to eat a lot of those leaves for it to be a problem.
1:40.0	And that's not likely because they taste terrible.
1:44.0	So that's probably not a big concern.
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