181 - Pluralistic Ignorance (rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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There are several ways to define pluralistic ignorance, and that’s because it’s kind of a brain twister when you try to put it into words. On certain issues, the majority of the people believe that the majority of the people in a group believe what, in truth, the minority of the members believe. Or put another way, it is the erroneous belief that the majority is acting in a way that matches its internal philosophies, and that you are one of a small number of people who feel differently, when in reality the majority agrees with you on the inside but is afraid to admit it outright or imply such through its behavior. Everyone in a group, at the same time, gets stuck following a norm that no one wants to follow, because everyone is carrying a shared, false belief about everyone else’s unshared true beliefs. -- Show Notes at: youarenotsosmart.com -- -- Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart -- SPONSORS • BetterHelp: BetterHelp.com - offer code YANSSPatreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.0	This is a disclaimer a warning that this episode features some audio that some
0:06.2	listeners may want to avoid. It features children in distress. It's from a
0:10.8	historical event. It's real audio. I tried to be respectful of not just the people featured in that audio, but listeners who might not want to hear that, but it's in here.
0:23.2	And I know it bothered me,
0:25.2	so I just wanted to give you a chance
0:26.8	to check out if you just rather not
0:29.2	be exposed to things like that.
0:31.4	If so, you can skip ahead four minutes and about 40 seconds to skip that part of the show. Me. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode 157. Oh, oh, oh, oh. toughest violence and the violence shall take it by force.
1:35.0	If we can't live in peace, then let's die in peace.
1:40.0	We've been so terribly betrayed. We've been so terribly betrayed.
1:47.0	But we tried and as Jack Beam often said, I don't know where he said right this moment,
1:58.0	where is Jack? He said, if it's only worked one day, it was worthwhile. Oh, 40 minutes. 40 minutes after recording that, the man speaking, Jim Jones and the people applauding his followers who called
2:36.3	themselves the people's temple would all be dead. The audio comes from a cassette tape recovered afterward by the FBI.
2:46.0	See Jim Jones recorded his sermons, and because he did, we have a record of the conversation and deliberation that took place before the people having that conversation and engaging in that deliberation came to a group consensus that nine hundred and nine people about three hundred of them children would do as
3:06.5	Jim Johns had asked them to do. Together force all their children to drink grape flavor aid poisoned with sedatives and
3:17.0	cyanide. And then, as a group, pour another cup and drink it themselves. Mother, mother, mother, mother, please, don't do this.
3:35.0	Mother, mother, please, mother, please,
3:40.0	don't do this, don't do this don't do this keep your emotions down keep your
3:47.8	emotions down
3:48.7	nobody will not hurt if you'll be if you'll be quiet if you'll be quiet
3:56.8	if you'll quit tell them they're dying you if you adults who stop some of this nonsense
4:01.1	adults adults I call on you to stop this nonsense.
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