Close Enough: Living Through Others
Hidden Brain
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Do We Have a Hard Time Appreciating Experts?
Watching experts perform a skill, watching them over and over again, improves people's confidence, but not their ability. Ed wanted to test the hypothesis that watching experts perform a skill is more effective than doing it yourself. In one of his experiments he had 400 volunteers watch an instructional vidio to learn how to do the tablecloth trick. Three, two, one, horse and a crowd.
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