Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad (he/him)
The papers are available for anyone to read, and I think they're pretty crystal clear that the default effect is huge. They explicitly say that the power of the default effect on many different decisions is one of the takeaways their research shows. If that's not convincing to you, I don't think anything I can say is going to be. If you don't believe the paid, trained experts from Columbia University who say that the simple act of having a default can have a remarkable effect on how people think and act, because they actually make a living studying human thought and behavior, and this is what their research actually tells them, then you ain't never gonna believe some jerk on the internet with a banana avatar.
I think you should reply to the entirety of my post, rather cherry pick a paragraph out of context like that. I addressed what you're saying, and explained why it's a hasty generalization. I didn't say the effect described in the study is not real, I explained why it's not applicable to these circumstances and how the circumstances are almost opposites.
We're peers. Have the basic level of respect to not outright dismiss the post I drafted so carefully in response to your argument with a hand-waive of, "Well, Science!".