You Are Not So Smart

264 - Nobody's Fool - Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris

Jul 11, 2023

48:46

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Episode guests

Dan Simons

Christopher Chabris

Highlights

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Episode notes

The Mandela Effect and Misremembered Memories

01:45

Inattentional Blindness: The Phenomenon of Missing the Obvious

01:26

The Two by Two Grid: Thinking, Happening, and Not Happening

01:21

Introduction

3min

The Illusion of Attention

4min

The Importance of Attention in Scams

3min

The Importance of Confidence in Magic

2min

The Power of Confidence

5min

The Importance of Truth Bias

3min

The Evolution of Skepticism

2min

The Importance of Uncertainty

2min

How to Be a Bitter Citizen of the Chaotic Epistemic Landscape

3min

10.

The Importance of Focusing on What You See

3min

11.

The Power of Consequences

3min

12.

The Importance of Prediction Isolated

2min

13.

The Mandela Effect

2min

14.

The Power of Memory and Confidence

5min

15.

What Do You Hope People Takeaway From This Book?

3min

16.

How Minds Change

3min

In an era in which we have more information available to us than ever before, when claims of “fake news” might themselves be, in fact, fake news, Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, authors of The Invisible Gorilla, are back to offer us a vital tool to not only inoculate ourselves against getting infected by misinformation but prevent us from spreading it to others, a new book titled Nobody's Fool.

Dan Simon's Website

Christopher Chabris' Website

Nobody's Fool

How Minds Change

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