| ▲ | llamaimperative 5 days ago |
| Odd Lots (Bloomberg finance podcast) had an episode back in June or something interviewing a food design consultant, and their focus groups came back very strongly in favor of healthier meal compositions. Agreed though, it's hard to know things :) Hopefully some real studies on this will be done soon. |
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| ▲ | leoqa 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Industry led focus group is not a legitimate source. |
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| ▲ | adastra22 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Depends on the focus group. Some are put together too establish that a product is wanted. Those are junk and useless. Others like this are designed to tease out trends and their accuracy is very valuable to the companies that commission them. | |
| ▲ | llamaimperative 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Uhhhh, in general this is true, but in this particular scenario they have a stronger incentive than almost anyone to understand true preference shifts created by these drugs. It doesn't mean they end up with the correct findings, but they are absolutely incentivized to try to produce correct findings. Lazy and inapplicable heuristics are not legitimate insights. |
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| ▲ | throwup238 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Did the consultant describe the change in focus group results or just the latest ones? I was under the impression that consumers have been asking for healthier food compositions for decades, probably since the 70s or 80s when all the FUD around fat started. Maybe GLP1 agonists bring their buying choices more inline with the focus group results which would be an interesting phenomenon. |
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| ▲ | llamaimperative 5 days ago | parent [-] | | I forget the design of the experiment but I remember feeling that my prior assumptions (which were in line with GP) were potentially wrong, so it must've been moderately convincing. I work in clinical trials so I'm not a complete buffoon on experiment design, but accordingly I'm also aware a good experiment is obscenely difficult to conduct, and obviously this was nothing close to an actual RCT. |
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