Comments on: Can You Spot The Inference?

By: Soph

Soph — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:14:34 +0000

It’s not the clearest advert in the world. Ideally they would have shown her coming out of the store with the bag.

By: janny226

janny226 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:49:57 +0000

That’s a reallly subtle commercial. Now, I watched it after reading your post, which may have helped me see her eyes widen with alarm when he first suggests the vacation, as well as the dance gesture and the way each of them in turn looks at the dress at the end, but I’m surprised that any commercial would demand such careful watching. I fast-forward everything on DVR, and I’d have never figured that one out at 3x speed.

By: Rylee

Rylee — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:42:50 +0000

I can’t say, since you had the header “Can you spot the inference?” and then of course i read into the text some before i played the vid…(this is typical of me: i often have to really force myself to read text in order as it is, and sometimes i don’t succeed.
So anyway, i didn’t come into it blind, so i can’t tell. It would be interesting to get a group of people on the Spectrum and ask them what their impressions were about the commercial, without any tip-off ahead of time.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:12:02 +0000

I definitely didn’t get it. The feeling of conflict and miscommunication between the two people really got on my nerves, and I started hoping they wouldn’t go on the vacation together, because clearly they’d keep talking at cross-purposes, and that would be intolerable…

Actually, this is the first time I’ve seen the ad with the sound on. Usually, I mute commercials, and I’d always thought this one was a Viagra ad.

By: wendy

wendy — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:11:46 +0000

I wonder if it’s more an intuitive vs non-intuitive thing? I’m super intuitive. Can spot a lie 100 miles away, almost always can tell what people are thinking, and can spot a player within 30 seconds…and I got this commercial before it was over. Does that sound like bragging? I’m not meaning to, but I do wonder what part intuition has to play in aspie vs. NT thinking? anything at all?

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By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:59:25 +0000

I think anyone has to see that commercial a couple times to really get it.

And my biggest peeve about it is SHE HAD ENOUGH POINTS TO GO ON A SEEMINGLY NICE VACATION AND BLEW THEM ON A DRESS. WTF is wrong with her??

By: outoutout

outoutout — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:53:51 +0000

Hmmm.

I watched it, got my NT better-half to watch it, and we both came to the same conclusion: ads are a poor representation of real life.

Neither of us could spot any *wink-wink-nudge-nudge* inference in the woman’s gestures that would lead to the conclusion she was protesting ’cause she’d already used up the points. We were expecting her to say, “Because I don’t have any holiday time from my job.” or something. And really, that’s the point, isn’t it? It’s the hook. You’re supposed to be surprised at the end.

In the real world, I think the conversation would go something like this:

Man: “Let’s use our Sapphire points to go on vacation.”
Woman: “We can’t.”
Man: “Why not?”
Woman: “Because I’ve already used them to buy this dress.”
Man: “Whaaaaaaaatttt???????????”
Woman: “Don’t you like it?”
Man: “Yes, but how could you?!?”

By: VAB

VAB — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:34:42 +0000

I did not get it until you explained it. I thought just as you did, and I am considered pretty NT.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:16:14 +0000

I had to rewind that commercial once or twice the first time I saw it, so I think it’s just trying to be very very subtle and ends up being a little unclear.