Affiliate blogging creates the opposite
result: rather than laying out all the options and weighing them carefully and objectively so that readers can make the decision that works
best for them, credit card affiliate links
lead to motivated reasoning: since affiliate
bloggers don't think of themselves as bad people, but do write blog posts promoting the credit cards that pay them affiliate kickbacks, it's absolutely necessary for them
to be emotionally invested, for example, in the absurd notion that the Hyatt credit card annual free night certificate really is the
best way
to get a hotel room in downtown Seattle.