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

We are bad at making decisions. According to science, our decisions are based on oversimplification, laziness and prejudice. And that's assuming that we haven't already been hijacked by our surroundings or led astray by our subconscious!

Featuring exclusive footage of experiments that show how our choices can be confounded by temperature, warped by post-rationalisation and even manipulated by the future, Horizon presents a guide to better decision making, and introduces you to Mathematician Garth Sundem, who is convinced that conclusions can best be reached using simple maths and a pencil!

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[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

[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"

[The3nlightened0ne]

@asfesesease

is priming a myth?

[The3nlightened0ne]

@jposh707

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

[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!

[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!

[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......