You Are Not So Smart - Launch Trailer

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This trailer is based on a chapter in the book on The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy

This is the launch trailer for the new book, You Are Not So Smart: Why you have too many friends on Facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction and 46 other ways you are deluding yourself. (http://youarenotsosmart.com/the-book/), by David McRaney.

Visit the website for more information: http://www.youarenotsosmart.com

Video shot, designed and produced by Plus3 Productions: http://plus3video.com

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[sdfgsddfgsdfhdsfhsdf]

This is really well done!

[Lownotes]

Only if the magical words floating in space are also a problem.

[BillyAteMySoul]

I thought of all the crazy conspiracy theories I've heard over the years, and I am glad someone else sees what I saw- people finding random facts and stringing them together, because that's what our brains do.

[Ian Kath]

I'm working my way through the book and think it's a brilliant introduction to all the topics in it, which this is just one. The podcast is also excellent with additions material to cause your head to spin. And a very cool video to get attentions also.

[kris kemp]

confirmation bias - people find evidence for what they want to believe

[Promethean Lucifer]

This book was written for you. How lucky!

[Camreeno]

Oswald didn't even shoot Kennedy... but otherwise cool video. I think that if there was hypothetically magical about big coincidences like the JFK and Lincoln thing, people would still argue that "Oh, it's just our tendency to want to see coincidences and patterns".

[mowimbi1]

Since pattern-seeking was essential to our survival in the days when we were potential lion food, we are genetically selected to see patterns- (was that just the wind rustling the grass or is it a carnivore??)The successful primate differentiates between real patterns that are meaningful, and those that seem connected but are simply cherry-picked from among other random occurrences as the result of our confirmation bias. The book makes this clear. Save a buck, get it at the library.

[candIejac]

I don't know if I want to get this book because of confirmation bias or because I actually want to... fuck I don't know what's real anymoreeeeeee

[2degucitas]

Girls can be such bitches sometimes. I know, I am one. But, I'm a woman with dude tendencies, so i feel your pain.

[Alana Dill]

He sounds like Eeyore.

I disagree that it's not smart to create patterns when none are technically there. We use this pattern-making skill to ask the what-if questions that lead to great literature. We make quilts, we put together the puzzle that is the periodic table of the elements. We look at cause-and-effect all the time; sometimes we make mistakes in our assessmenht. But the fact that we can do it at all, and correct course given better information, is wonderful.

[juicykarkass]

"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won't believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!" -Richard Feynmann