S Srinivasan Market research serves to reduce the arbitrary element in the marketing man's hunches.
But to invest its findings with near-infallibility is to subscribe to the thesis that human behaviour under given circumstances can be predicted with a reasonable degree of accuracy provided the techniques applied are sophisticated enough.
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