056 - Magicians And Scams - Brian Brushwood

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🗓️ 12 August 2015

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Before we had names for them or a science to stud…

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0:57.0	Episode 56.
1:00.0	Episode 56. They may not all realize it, but when it comes to cognitive biases, errors and
1:25.6	attention, overconfidence, and all the other loopholes in our minds that have been
1:30.5	around since we've had brains, magicians have an intimate knowledge of those concepts.
1:35.6	Before we had names for them or a science to study them, the people who could claim the most
1:45.8	expertise on that side of human reasoning were scam artists, con artists, and magicians.
1:51.8	In this show, this project, it owes a whole lot to the magic profession
1:56.6	I'm I'm not sure I've ever actually went through this on the show but the way you are not so smart began
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