HBH 21: Our Distorted Reality
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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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