Subliminal messages

Are you sure that you aren’t being subconsciously manipulated into making decisions that you wouldn’t normally make? Are you sure that over the next few days, your purchases of popcorn and Coke will be completely under your conscious control? Are you even sure that I haven’t embedded secret messages into this research paper to manipulate you into giving me an A? If you didn’t consciously perceive “secret messages” but you did …

…whatever they want. This is where you have to wonder if we should ever really know. It all comes down to the mathematical fact that even when there’s a lot of a positive, if there’s a bigger negative, then it’s still negative. Scientists will probably continue to study subliminal messages until we have it all figured out because of our need to learn, and hopefully, our newfound knowledge will be exclusively positive!