Reflect on the concepts presented in the video (https://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_firestein_the_pursuit_of_ignorance?language=en) and overview and the example of a growing body of research as captured in the article A Review of Facebook Research in the Social Sciences (https://journals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/doi/full/10.1177/1745691612442904). Also, consider the question (As a social scientist, the big question that I would ask is: how can one measure the attention or the focus level whenever one is watching an advert? Adverts are aimed to create awareness of a product or service by getting the attention of the viewers. Measuring the attention and the focus of the viewers should be determined to gauge the effectiveness of a particular advert.) you posed about your advertisements in your observation journal in the last theme. Then, in a short answer response, address the following questions:
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