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This is very interesting but I must admin, not very surprising. In fact, I find myself (in)explicably drawn to the images with redheads above the others. I'll be interested to follow this experiment and curious to learn your results.

Oh, and I'm always up for helping drink beer if you find yourself in a windfall of beer money!

I find it odd that they're forming a connection between the picture and the click-throughs, and not the abnormal link description. How many people have clicked on the button here?: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=9644 How many have clicked on it because it tells them to not do so? And how many clicked on it because it's red and round?

People are drawn to things they shouldn't do, especially when there's no immediately-visible reason they shouldn't. As the saying goes, the fastest way to get your kids to do something is to forbid them from doing it.

No doubt.

The interesting thing here is that the accouterments of the ad can play a bigger role than the ad itself. So perhaps making it "Don't click this!" will help you more than trying to A/B test out some MVP statement

To me that makes it a possible game-changer, depending on the nature of your startup. (You'd have to follow through each test to see if the leads from the "BS" version qualified and converted at the same rate as the others, and that's outside the scope of the piece)

some one should a/b test different cup sizes and different shirt colors. a/b test, cup sizes?! ha I kill me. There's a doctoral thesis in there somewhere.

Dupe

lol @ this getting downvoted. Just b/c you missed the "Girl in the t-shirt" submission the first time doesn't make this a new submission

FYI: you're probably not being downvoted because people think you are incorrect. (In fact, it is my understanding that incorrect information should generally be politely corrected, rather than downvoted.) Instead, the downvotes most likely result from the fact that a post saying only "dupe" adds nothing to the conversation. Noting duplicate articles can be useful when there were interesting comments on the previous version, but should then be accompanied by a link to that post and/or a summary of the interesting comments.

Edit: Sorry if this comes off as overly didactic: I incorrectly assumed you were new. However, my main point still stands.

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