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You Are Not So Smart - The Essential Episodes
'You Are Not So Smart' is easily one of my favorite podcasts, and probably the one with the most universal appeal. No matter what your political or ideological views may be, this is the show that lets you know how wrong you probably are. And it does so in a way that's as entertaining as it is illuminating. These are the episodes that I most highly recommend.[EDIT 2023] - Unfortunately, this podcast has jumped the shark and turned to crap since late 2020. Like a lot of formally reliable media, it has abandoned it's objectivity and turned into a one-sided Leftist propaganda tool. I still recommend everything pre-2020, but the episodes since then are garbage.
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BorderFreeAndrewCreated September 25, 2020
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- There are several ways to define pluralistic ignorance, and that’s because it’s kind of a brain twister when you try to put it into words. On certain issues, the majority of the people believe that the majority of the people in a group believe
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- The evidence is clear that humans value being good members of their tribes much more than they value being correct. We will choose to be wrong if it keeps us in good standing with our peers.In this episode, we explore how that affects politics
- In this episode we explore prevalence induced concept change. In a nutshell, when we set out to change the world by reducing examples of something we have deemed problematic, and we succeed, a host of psychological phenomena can mask our progre
- In this episode, we welcome Lilliana Mason on the program to discuss her new book, Uncivil Agreement, which focuses on the idea: “Our conflicts are over who we think we are, rather than reasoned differences of opinion.”Personally, I feel like t
- In this divisive and polarized era how do you bridge the political divide between left and right? You do you persuade the people on the other side to see things your way?New research by sociologist Robb Willer and psychologist Matthew Feinberg
- 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 fallacy, according to the experts in this episode.The genetic fallacy appears when people trac
- 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 time realizing that we've suggested the world is devoid of nuance when we are in the heat of an a
- 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 to a nearly unavoidable mistake in reasoning, you often end up doing battle with arguments of
- Did Brian Williams lie, exaggerate, or misremember? How certain are you that your most vivid memories are real? How easily could someone implant a false memory into your mind? In this episode you'll learn why psychologists say that your memory
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