Part 4 of 5 - How to Make Better Decisions - BBC Horizon

[qwertyfire]

Music 1:55? anyone?

[mahmoudian20]

So how can now, watched this video help with my decision makings?

[shirusubemonaku]

9:08 an unorthodox idea, is usually a sign of a breakthrough. Mainstream scienctists are dumb as fuck

[Morty4444]

@shirusubemonaku An unorthodox idea is USUALLY a sign of a breakthrough?? And where exactly do you get your facts from?

And if you think mainstream scientists are dumb as fuck, you're obviously not too bright yourself...

[mba2ceo]

BS ... the ( hot & cold ) interaction may NOT have been the same. Was NOT a controlled environment.

[KateForte]

There was no baseline measure of their personalities... That experiment showed NOTHING conclusive... *I cry* Priming is a pretty well supported phenomenon and I don't doubt it but this experiment wasn't soundly conducted...

[anabolicErik]

If you don't think people can't tell the future, check out Edgar Cayce...

[blacksperrow]

are you kidding me. Snotgrass xD

[MsPwain]

The decision making "choosing a person" is not so interesting as if this was a real life "choice". Just choosing a person based on look in a test doesn't have impact on the decision makers life. But if he was to think about whom to marry (or date) "in real life", the situation would be so very different.

[STOPTHEEU]

Heat or Chill?

Or is it the elegance of coffee and the immaturity of cola?

[weestro7]

...continued from last post, sorry. And the same goes for the study with people choosing cards with faces on them. It's not clear from the documentary what's being chosen: a date with the person shown? Or what? I doubt they were actually choosing anything of significance. So, I ask, to what extent do the results reveal truth about significant decision-making?

[navneetnair]

@weestro7 I suppose the basic premise is that decisions are not always rational and whole bunch of causes and conditions effect our decisions. So it does not matter if the situations are real life or not but this is just an abstraction of how a small seemingly unrelated cause can alter our decision.

[weestro7]

What makes me always skeptical (almost wrote "sceptical" due to BBC's priming effect on my American English) is that such studies as the warm/cold beverages aren't testing a real decision. The subjects weren't really the managers who were hiring a project manager. Therefore, we can't advance this study as giving evidence on actual managers doing actual job interviews.

[ukens1]

holy shit priming actually works, i tried it

[Elephantintheroom01]

Thanks for posting this video.