• Coelacanth
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    3 days ago

    That’s a classic negotiation technique abusing the psychological anchoring effect.

    • addicity@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      Yeah, I’ve heard of writers on shows like the Animaniacs doing it, insisting heavily on a more outrageous joke having to go in knowing it’ll get knocked back as a Trojan horse to slip the real jokes they want in.