182 - The A/B Effect (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

Science, Psychology, Brain, Business, Mental Health, Culture, Neuroscience, Mind, Health

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🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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So, you might think that, in general, as an idea, as a practice, the A/B test would be beloved, supported, and encouraged as a way to test out policies and practices and drugs and treatments, but new research shows that a significant portion of the public does not feel this way, enough to cause doctors and lawmakers and educators to avoid A/B testing altogether. -- Show Notes at: youarenotsosmart.com -- -- Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart -- SPONSORS • The Great Courses Plus: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/smart• BetterHelp: www.betterhelp.com/YANSSPatreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.0	This episode is a rebroadcast of the AB effect, an episode we did last year about this really strange psychological phenomenon that you will recognize once you start to hear the explanation behind it, but it's something that, though common and impactful in this world,
0:19.0	wasn't really researched or quantified until recently.
0:22.0	And I'm doing this re-broad... researched or quantified until recently.
0:23.0	And I'm doing this rebroadcast
0:26.0	because I just lost a close, long time personal friend
0:32.4	not to coronavirus or something else and I just needed to
0:36.2	take a hiatus for a second. But the next episode will be a new episode. It will be a very
0:42.4	special episode. It will be a very special episode. It will be all
0:44.5	about Black Lives Matter, the protests, the impact of systemic racism, police
0:49.8	brutality, all those things we're talking about right now, but I'm just going to hand over the entire
0:55.9	show to the Association of Black Psychologists and they're going to do whatever they want with the show.
1:01.2	So that'll be coming up in two weeks and after that I have new
1:05.2	episodes about cults. I interviewed one of the world's leading experts on
1:10.4	cults and there's an episode about street epistemology and there will be an
1:14.7	episode about de-biasing yourself looking at cognitive biases and ways to
1:20.5	de-bias yourself there's actually a disaster avoidance expert who I interviewed who wrote
1:25.3	a book about that very topic. So lots of new content on the way, but until then, please enjoy
1:31.2	this rebroadcast of the middle of the parties and they get.
1:45.0	Yeah, we're cool, we're a bit, they're quite.
1:50.0	But then talking about the power of a down school. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
1:53.0	Episode. are not so smart podcast episode 182. If you are listening to this and you are a human being, then I'm pretty sure that like myself, you have some regrets.
2:31.0	And I bet you've considered how things might have turned out differently. Had you done
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