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079 - Separate Spheres
Common sense used to dictate that men and women should only come together for breakfast and dinner.
According to Victorian historian Kaythrn Hughes, …
10 years, 3 months ago
078 - The Existential Fallacy
Hypothetical situations involving dragons, robots, spaceships, and vampires have all been used to prove and disprove arguments.
Statements about thing…
10 years, 4 months ago
077 - The Conjunction Fallacy
Here is a logic puzzle created by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.
Linda is single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosop…
10 years, 4 months ago
076 - The Genetic Fallacy
We often overestimate and overstate just how much we can learn about a claim based on where that claim originated, and that's the crux of the genetic…
10 years, 4 months ago
075 - Special Pleading / Moving the Goalposts
Sometimes you apply a double standard to the things you love, the things you believe, and the things crucial to your identity, and often you do so wi…
10 years, 5 months ago
074 - Begging The Question
If you believe something is bad because it is...bad, or that something is good because, well, it's good, you probably wouldn't use that kind of reaso…
10 years, 5 months ago
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…
10 years, 6 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…
10 years, 6 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…
10 years, 7 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, 7 months ago