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HBH 21: Our Distorted Reality
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By Noel Armstrong. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.
Today I begin a pedantic journey into the tragicomic ways our perceptions and judgments are altered and distorted by our own cognitive processes -- goofy, heartbreaking, and humorous all at once,
Index of topics included:
0:00 Intro
04:52 Anchoring Bias
08:59 Availability Heuristic
13:25 Backfire Effect
16:05 Barnum Effect
19:45 Belief Bias
23:06 Bystander Effect
27:22 Confirmation Bias and Belief Perseverance
Including Wm. Flinders-Petrie vs the Pyramidologists
33:56 Curse of Knowledge
35:10 Declinism aka Old Fartism
36:49 Framing Effects
40:06 Fundamental Attribution Error (Salience of the Actor)
Empty Boats
I will finish the topic in a few weeks, but in order to not bore you to death with this laundry list, I will interject a few historical vignettes between now and then.
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