The Fastest Recorded Shift of Public Opinion

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i wanted to understand, like scientifically, how could an entire country change its mind about something that they were arguing about at the same level as wedge issues are argued about to day? And i imagine taking someone in a time machine back ten years and having them meet themselves. U imaginethe two people arguing with one another themselves the same way they argued to day. I just wanted to understand how, how could it happen quickly? What is the nature of a very rapid social change? That was the entry point into it. But when i started interviewing people in political science first, they were like, ya, we know this is the fastest recording recorded shift of public opinion but it's not

A few weeks ago, Maya Shankar and her team reached out to me noting their new show, A Slight Change of Plans, which explores how various fascinating people have changed their minds, often after something unexpected happened in the story of their lives, overlapped in its interests and goals with You Are Not So Smart.

One of her guests, Megan Phelps-Roper, was recently a guest on this show, and Daryl Davis is one of her guests who I’ve long wanted to feature on this podcast. So, as podcasters do from time to time, Maya wondered if she could come on this podcast to promote her podcast, and seeing as our interests and obsessions and work and overall mission aligned so strongly, I said, "Absolutely, I would love that," and this is that episode

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