The Michael Shermer Show

189. Daniel Kahneman — Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

Jun 19, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
One Drem Is Spelled W O N D R I U M Dot Com Slash Shermer Again
02:04 • 5min
3
Why Do People Don't Talk to Each Other?
07:32 • 2min
4
I Believe in Results, You Have to Believe It
09:30 • 3min
5
Wherever There Is Judgment, There Is Noise
12:49 • 2min
6
The Measure of Inaccuracy
14:28 • 2min
7
The Difference Between Free and Free by Averaging
16:54 • 2min
8
The Difference Between Individual Differences and Systemic Errors in Judgment
18:29 • 5min
9
How to Think and Solve Problems With Brilliant Courses
23:24 • 4min
10
Predicting Causality in the Social Science
27:08 • 2min
11
The Most Important Source of Noise
28:51 • 3min
12
The Big Five Personality Dimensions
32:08 • 2min
13
The Main Source of Noise
33:44 • 3min
14
Averaging Reduces Noise
36:22 • 2min
15
Averaging Eliminates Noise With Certainty
38:47 • 2min
16
Is There a Bias in Sentencing?
41:12 • 3min
17
Is There a Source of Error?
44:29 • 3min
18
The Problem With the Guidelines of Sentencing Guidelines
47:26 • 3min
19
What's the Point of Writing a Book?
50:14 • 3min
20
How to Reduce the Noise in a Mental Hospital
52:59 • 2min
21
Do You Think You Are a Psychopath?
55:13 • 3min
22
How to Train Systems for Adjusting for Noise
58:24 • 2min
23
Decision Hygiene - How to Avoid Intuitive Errors
01:00:02 • 3min
24
Do You Have a Noise Problem in Your Hiring Process?
01:03:30 • 2min
25
Google Is Already Doing a Lot to Get Rid of His Noise
01:05:08 • 2min
26
How Much Noise Do We Have?
01:06:50 • 2min
27
How to Control for the Noise in Governments
01:08:48 • 3min
28
How to Be a Better Super Forecaster
01:11:33 • 2min
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How to Be a Good Super Forecaster
01:13:10 • 2min
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I Think It's Primarily in Organizations, and I'm Relatively Optimistic That Organizations Can Improve Themselves
01:15:29 • 2min
31
What Are We Going to Do About It?
01:17:38 • 2min
32
We're on the Threat of the Moment
01:19:13 • 2min
33
The Difference Between Empirical Truths and Religious Truths
01:21:22 • 2min
34
The Judication Problem Is a Deep One
01:22:53 • 2min
35
Is Everyone Susceptible to Judgment?
01:24:43 • 3min
36
Is There a Difference Between Free Will and Determinism?
01:28:09 • 2min
37
The Problem of Free Will Isn't Especially Interesting
01:29:54 • 2min
38
Are You 87? What's Coming Next?
01:31:53 • 3min
39
Is There a Connection to Individual Autonomy?
01:34:48 • 3min
40
Are You a Happy Person?
01:38:11 • 3min