Part 5 of 5 - How to Make Better Decisions - BBC Horizon

[wawalolzor]

From my experience of professional gaming, with time and experience , i can confirm that there is a slight amount of precognition which is involved in my decisions, specially in situations that require a lot of thought and have to be near instantaneous. This is what gives me 'the edge' over other players.

Of course a lot of it comes from knowing your opponent,experience and practice.

But if you pay attention you have precognitive moments very often.How many times have you said "Damm I knew it"

[Aprinsa]

That would be pretty cool, I guess, if the very near future is actually capable of communicating with us. But why haven't I heard of this study before? One little video and one man's work isn't enough for me to believe in this. And I don't know enough about science to try to figure it out myself.

[DurexDurpaneu2]

Quantum thinking baby! Is where it's @!

[midoweimar]

Radin: "maybe the bad feeling is relating to an event which is about to occur"

this is an idiotic thing to say, I think it is shame on BBC to show this part, it opens the door to all kinds of pseudo-science like telepathy or even talking to the dead!

[qazzplmm]

Beware of CONFIRMATION BIAS! you think/believe in something and end up finding evidence for it... another trick of our minds!

And, consider CHANCE! a rather extreme example is the study of the brain activation of a dead fish to pictures (all a matter of statistics, but if it wasn't a fish... would this evidence be so easily disregarded?)

[asfesesease]

So many confounds and pathetically biased conclusions in this movie

[The3nlightened0ne]

@asfesesease

is priming a myth?

[pojomcbooty]

what I want to know is how is the computer choosing the images at random - is it a standard random number generator (which is actually a pattern-based list) or is it seeded by some actual random data (which I suppose can't really exist). hmmmmmm......

[nodeworks]

@pojomcbooty if this really shows considerable consistency, I want to know what happens when he interferes with the selection for the upcoming picture into the opposite kind!

[frogambassador]

me gusta

[thejazzfuneral]

when i see this subject i can't apart it from nlp

i think it is really useful frame to see the world

[mba2ceo]

Pilots are NO different than drivers ... glorified race-car drivers.

[OwnageEngine]

@mba2ceo Except for you know... an extra dimension to work in.

[stauffap]

When is the bbc going to realise that dean radin isn't a serious scientist? He statistical analyses are a joke. He takes a bunch of studies with no sicnificant statistical effects put them together in some metaanalysis and suddenly he finds "significant results"...sure, mr. radin ;)

Instead of some pilot they could have shown some expert in statstics.

[mistertaylor92]

As he said "what are you going to watch next" I was trying to figure it out. Scary.

[jposh707]

I blame the Americans for all this MUMBO JUMBO! And I am one! Hahaha.

[The3nlightened0ne]

@jposh707

It aint america, it`s the fucking human race.

[scimath42]

terribad

[MsPwain]

GHOSTBUSTERS!

[marvincontendo]

My thought on this is that the brain makes a subconscious calculus that estimates the probability of some random event happening, therefore stimulating the respective emotional reaction. The thing is that some people are just better on this than others. It's not precognition... It's plain math.

[Cisser]

@marvincontendo I understand what u mean. But dont you think thats randomnes? what you are talking about is experience...But what about actually guessing RANDOM pictures? no prior experience exists. No subconcious calculus (sorry english for my English)

[nonlogos]

Thanks for uploading a great informative, thought-provoking and yet funny show. I enjoyed it so much that the emotion I felt forced me to decide on taking the time to post this comment instead of perhaps the more rational choice of going to sleep.

Well, I guess as long as we don't regret our decisions....^___^

Well done!

[rafaelwaa]

THANKS 

[waveriderhun]

Bit of cheating and self-irony at 6:25:

"Though not everyone is happy with the idea"

I guess the narrator just realized that they are comparing appels with pears :D

Predicting based on no information whatsoever (the observer does not know which picture is coming up) is in no relation with the predictable, 4-dimensional calculation of the pilot: calculates in 3D where the enemy can go in x seconds.

I'm curious whether the tests have been checked by others.

Mumbo-jumbo... Poor show, BBC!

[55mandreck]

VERY IRRITATING BBC - you could not have spun this out any longer - you could of said all the relevant infomation in less than half the time - make better decisions indeed ; a few years ago I decided to save the license fee and throw the t.v. out -

This programme and its' like reminds me of what a good decision that was .

[JoshSitar]

@55mandreck You could "of" written that statement correctly and said "could HAVE", or better yet, the contraction "could've".

[alienpresence]

This weeks lottery numbers. You want to know them? Ask a ace fighter pilot.  Only a small percentage of pilots can do this.

[31nnn]

In the first 12 seconds of this clip the narrator says " ...while being crushed by gravity ... " That is total nonsense. Fighter pilots do not feel the force of gravity. They feel centrifugal force as they make tight turns. Centrifugal force is not gravity! If a pilot is making a high speed tight 5g turn the force he feels is centrifugal force not gravity.

And this is supposed to be the BBC's flagship science program? BBC Horizon of old is good and worth seeking out, contemporary BBC is crap.

[ffincoree]

Something to think about...... Wonder what my decision will be LOL

[snakedog04]

Precognition

wtf

get a freaking life

[kolchiMlih]

very good to know those stuff

maybe it will help me repairing my messy life