It's not exactly a hidden meaning... if you know what Gangnam is, then the meaning is quite obvious and blatant.
Also, it says that, "He writes his own songs and choreographs his own videos, which is unheard of in K-Pop.". This is however pretty much the norm for YG, the record studio he belongs to.
Big Bang's leader, G-Dragon, writes much of the music and lyrics for the group, along with T.O.P.
Also, they don't write their own songs, but YG band 2NE1 has a video with over 50,000,000 views, but it took a few years to get there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_lSP8Vc3o
First of all, this seems to me to be taken almost fully from a press release of some sort - it's quite an advertisement for that company.
Secondly, the only specific decline they gave evidence for was quantity, with a little shorthand mention of motility:
"After a quick scan, she sits up straight and shakes her head. The number of spermatozoa darting around each tiny grid on the slide is two to four, well below the minimum six required, and nowhere near the 10 to 20 per grid that indicates the kind of healthy concentration the bank likes to see."
If the main problem is the # of sperm declining, my hypothesis would be an increase in the availability of porn and increased masturbation.
Great study! As someone who's studied the subject of affecting mass behavior quite heavily (http://massbehavior.weebly.com/), I completely agree with your analysis. This is also in line with the advice of great marketers from throughout history!
For those of you who think this is morally sketchy: don't. The ends can certainly be immoral (if you're persuading someone to do something that will hurt them), but the methods are neutral. I could write an essay on this (and am working on one), but this answer basically stems from modern neuroscience and the history of persuasion.
Truth be told, I've never seen someone here in NYC who espoused the above views, or have read them. In fact, most people I've met look down on women who don't have careers.
A google search of "women should stay at home" gives mostly people critical of the viewpoint. Could you like to me to someone supporting stay at home women?
eBay, Amazon, Buy.com are all in a competitive struggle for marketplace dollars (Sears and Newegg are a smaller, but real, part of this). These innovations are a cool result of this.
We're looking for a programmer with experience in RFID to integrate the data collected by various UHF RFID hardware readers into a user interface on the iPad. Knowledge of RFID is obviously a huge bonus.
This job is not just for someone looking to follow precise instructions on code requirements - we're looking for someone to consult with us and guide us through the most efficient path to the goal of the product, as well as executing the development.
Our company is an innovative start-up with plenty of traction. We're revolutionizing inventory management for the jewelry industry, where a single lost product, smaller than your pinky nail, can costs thousands and thousands of dollars.
To the right candidate this project is the first of many. We would like to grow with a skilled outside contractor for many of our upcoming projects.
Thank you. I intend to make and have sketched out a simple website that shows the list, but each item links to a separate page with sources, and also allows for comments. Alas for a lack of spare time!
Note: I am not a developer. My experience is in e-commerce marketing and my degree (est. May 2013) is in Statistics.
I've loved the field of human persuasion for years, and I think I can add something that I have written in the past to this conversation. I essentially made a list of marketing "truths", based on my research and experience, and have tested it against others. What remains of the list is what no one has been able to refute, so I think it's decently close to a list of universal irrefutable "rules of marketing."
The Truths of Marketing
1) Ethos (your perceived character) is the most important.
2) People make judgments by comparison/anchoring.
3) People process information best from stories.
4) People are foremost interested in things that affect them.
5) Breaking patterns gets attention.
6) People look to other people's decisions when making decisions.
7) People will believe things more easily that fit their pre-existent mindset. The converse is also true.
8) People handle one idea at a time best.
9) People want more choices, but are happier with fewer.
10) People decide first, then rationalize - If people are stuck with something, they will like it more over time.
11) Experience is memory, the last part of the experience is weighted heavily.
* Keep in mind that this should not necessarily be used a checklist; see what the director of a large creative agency says on the subject:
"I think that in broad strokes these truisms are accurate, but they aren't really how I personally get to the bottom of the marketing equation when working on a brand.
Of them, I think 1 and 4 are probably the closest, but I think the biggest problem is the same problem you find in how any analysis of consumers, or what is usually called "consumer behavior" is used -- it is, by definition, one step removed from what you're trying to analyze, yet it's treated like the consumers themselves.
Because consumers are often perceived as black boxes to marketers, there's a temptation to analyze their behavior and then market to that analysis instead of to them. Maybe this is because I'm on the creative side, but for me the most useful role of research is to inform and guide what is a form of for our consumer. To not just analyze what drives them, but to genuinely it yourself.
Reading research about twelve-year-old girls' purchase decisions and focus group transcripts is not the same thing as thinking like one. I have a client in that market, and I read everything when I'm working on something -- research, web sites, fan magazines, television -- but none of it is a substitute for sitting in a dark room and genuinely trying to imagine the trials of what it must be like to actually be a twelve-year-old girl from a first person perspective.
It sounds absurd, but that's how you come up with great ideas -- to do your best to become a twelve-year-old girl, and then develop things that you would enjoy.
So I think truisms like yours are useful as long as they remain a means to an end, and not, as they so often do, a checklist, or worse, the end itself."
I have no current use for it so I can't help you, but I know if I was to make an e-commerce site, I would use Shopify. Your offering looks very useful, so I asked for future reference :)