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Letter: Anagram clue

Published 24 May 2006

From Stephen Miller

I’m amazed that in the study on subliminal advertising researchers used an anagram of Lipton Ice – Nipeic Tol – for the control (29 April, p 16). Why? Well, at first glance I thought they were both Lipton Ice. Some brains work like that, especially in the first 300 milliseconds.

Santa Fe, New Mexico, US

Issue no. 2553 published 27 May 2006

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