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BIASES<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

8 Mile Movie<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Our technology and ideas have evolved, but our brains can\u2019t evolve fast enough to keep up with them. Consequently, biases are created and are used in almost every sales campaign, business, marketing campaign, movie, news, relationships, rap battle as shown in the 8 mile movie:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In-Group Bias<\/span><\/span><\/span>: Notice Eminem\u2019s first line: \u201cNow everybody from the 313, put your mother f.cking hands up and follow me.\u201d The 313 is the area code for Detroit. And not just Detroit. It\u2019s for blue-collar Detroit, where the entire audience, and Eminem, is from. So he wipes away the out-group bias that might be associated with his race and he changes the conversation to \u201cwho is in 313 and who is not in 313.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Herd Behavior<\/span><\/span><\/span>: Put your hands up and follow me, he says. Everyone starts putting their hands up without thinking. So their brain tells them that they are doing this for rational reasons. For instance, they are now following Eminem.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Availability Cascade<\/span><\/span><\/span>: The brain has a tendency to believe things if they are repeated, regardless of whether or not they are true. This is Availability Cascade. Notice Eminem repeats his first line. After he does that he no longer needs to say \u201cfollow me.\u201d He says, \u201cLook, look.\u201d He is setting up the next cognitive bias.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Distinction Bias or \u201cOut-groups\u201d Bias<\/span><\/span><\/span>: Brains have a tendency to view two things as very different if they are evaluated at the same time as opposed to if they are evaluated separately. Eminem wants the audience to see his opponent \u201cPapa Doc\u201d as someone different from the group, even though the reality is they are all in the same group of friends with similar interests, etc. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Eminem says: \u201cNow while he stands tough, notice that this man did not have his hands up.\u201d In other words, even though Papa Doc is black, like everyone in the audience, he is no longer \u201cin the group\u201d that Eminem has defined and commanded: the 313 group. He has completely changed the conversation from race to area code.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ambiguity Bias<\/span><\/span><\/span>: He doesn\u2019t refer to Papa Doc by name. He says \u201cthis man.\u201d In other words, there\u2019s \u201cthe 313 group\u201d that all of us in the audience are a part of, and now there is this ambiguous man who is attempting to invade us.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Watch campaign debates. A candidate will rarely refer to another one by name. Instead, she might say, \u201cAll of my opponents might think X, but we here know that Y is better.\u201d When the brain starts viewing someone with ambiguity it gets confused and can\u2019t make choices involving that ambiguity. So the one without ambiguity wins.<\/p>\n

Credential Bias<\/span><\/span><\/span>: Because the brain wants to take shortcuts, it will look for information more from people with credentials or lineage than from people who come out of nowhere. So, for instance, if one person was from Harvard and told you it was going to rain today and another random person told you it was going to be sunny today you might be more inclined to believe the person from Harvard. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Eminem uses this subtly two lines later. He says, \u201cone, two, three, and to the four.\u201d This is a direct line from Snoop Dogg\u2019s first song with Dr. Dre, \u201cAin\u2019t Nothin But a G Thing.\u201d It is the first line in the song and perhaps one of the most well-known rap lines ever. Eminem directly associates himself with well-known successful rappers Dr. Dre and Snoop when he uses that line. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He then uses Availability Cascade again by saying, \u201cone Pac, two Pac, three Pac, four.\u201d First, he\u2019s using that one, two, three, and to the four again but this time with Pac, which refers to the rapper Tupac. So now he\u2019s associated himself, in this little battle in Detroit, with three of the greatest rappers ever.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In-group\/Out-group<\/span><\/span><\/span>: Eminem points to random people in the audience and says, \u201cYou\u2019re Pac, he\u2019s Pac,\u201d including them with him in associating their lineages with these great rappers. But then he points to his opponent, Papa Doc, makes a gesture like his head is being sliced off and says, \u201cYou\u2019re Pac? None.\u201d Meaning that Papa Doc has no lineage, no credibility, unlike Eminem and the audience.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Objections Up Front<\/span><\/span><\/span>: Any direct marketer or salesperson knows the next technique Eminem uses. When you are selling a product, or yourself, or even going on a debate or convincing your kids to clean up their room, the person or group you are selling to is going to have easy objections. They know those objections and you know those objections. If you don\u2019t bring them up and they don\u2019t bring them up, then they will not buy your product. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If they bring it up before you, then it looks like you were hiding something and you just wasted a little of their time by forcing them to bring it up. So a great sales technique is to address all of the objections in advance. Eminem\u2019s next set of lines does this brilliantly. He says, \u201cI know everything he\u2019s got to say against me.\u201d And then he just lists them one by one:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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