Designing post-testing for the third millennium

In this final article on advertising research for the third millennium Spike Crampthorne asks readers to consider the approach to advertising research in 1982 and shows that views widely held at the time are now known to be seriously flawed.

Designing Post-Testing for the Third Millennium

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Suppose this is 1982 and you need to find out the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. You have no pre-existing knowledge of post-testing or tracking, but you have looked into the future and are aware of everything we now know in 2002 about how the mind takes in and stores information.

Your final recommendation, to use recognition-based ongoing intermittent tracking, does not resemble the CATI-based advertising recall tracking systems that came to dominate advertising post-measurement between the 1980s and today. Why?

Let us retrace the decision process that has...

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