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073 - Bayes' Theorem
We don’t treat all of our beliefs equally.
For some, we see them as either true or false, correct or incorrect. For others, we see them as probabiliti…
9 years, 10 months ago
072 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect (Rebroadcast)
In this episode, we explore why we are unaware that we lack the skill to tell how unskilled and unaware we are.
The evidence gathered so far by psych…
9 years, 11 months ago
071 - The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
When you desire meaning, when you want things to line up, when looking for something specific, you tend to notice patterns everywhere, which leads yo…
9 years, 11 months ago
070 - The No True Scotsman Fallacy
When your identity becomes intertwined with your definitions, you can easily fall victim to something called The No true Scotsman Fallacy.
It often ap…
10 years ago
069 - The Black And White Fallacy
Obviously, the world isn't black and white, so why do we try to drain it of color when backed into a rhetorical corner?
Why do we have such a hard ti…
10 years ago
068 - The Strawman Fallacy
When confronted with dogma-threatening, worldview-menacing ideas, your knee-jerk response is usually to lash out and try to bat them away, but thanks…
10 years, 1 month ago
067 - The Fallacy Fallacy
If you have ever been in an argument, you've likely committed a logical fallacy, and if you know how logical fallacies work, you've likely committed …
10 years, 1 month ago
065 - Survivorship Bias (rebroadcast)
The problem with sorting out failures and successes is that failures are often muted, destroyed, or somehow removed from sight while successes are le…
10 years, 2 months ago
064 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos (rebroadcast)
Our guest in this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is psychologist Laurie Santos who heads the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale Un…
10 years, 3 months ago
063 - The Search Effect - Matthew Fisher
What effect does Google have on your brain? Here's an even weirder question: what effect does knowing that you have access to Google have on your bra…
10 years, 3 months ago