2min chapter

No Stupid Questions cover image

10. Why Are Stories Stickier Than Statistics?

No Stupid Questions

CHAPTER

Podcasts, the Story Telling

i believe that we inherently insert ourselves in a story to a certain degree. Jurors confront masses of facts presented in a scrambled sequence, which is disorienting with substantial gaps in the record filtered through the obvious personal biases of witnesses. So how o they deal with this complexity? It turns out, they spontaneously construct a story to account for this. And choose whichever side tells a story that best matches their own. i think that we would agree that there's a lot of evidence that story telling is sticky,. right? Well, there's aA lot of anecdotal evidence. Er, well, I'm reading a paper from the journal of experimental psychology. It shows that jurors rely heavily on stories

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode