In a lake there's a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. How long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? The's a serious pach questions. This is going to determine if your guyes are rational or not. I'm asian, but i'm better, so you might have a chance. Im, i'm jewish, and i go broke all the timeraw tiraw, kind of mat sta, in a lake. If it takes forty eight days for the patches to cover the entire lake, how long will it take them to do that with ice? It has no bearing on whether you answer correctly
A couple of episodes ago, I have Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author, on to talk about this new book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. And at the end of this book, there are quizzes to see if you're system 1 or system 2 in terms of Rationality.
Naturally, I have to try this quiz on people, so I have my wife, Robyn, and Jay The Engineer on to see how they do on the quiz! We also talked about some of the different biases.
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