200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 97 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

When facing a novel and uncertain situation, the brain secretly disambiguates the ambiguous without letting you know it was ever uncertain in the first place, leading people who disambiguate differently to seem iNsAnE. This episode is about why we so often don't understand why we disagree, which leads us to disagree even more, and we explore that through the science behind The Dress. We look into why some people see it as black and blue, others see it as white and gold, and how the scientific investigation of why that is led to the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs, and how the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs may be, as one researcher explains, the nuclear bomb of cognitive neuroscience. - Show notes at: www.youarenotsosmart.com - Become a patron at: www.patreon.com/youarenotsosmart Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, everybody. I'm working on something really, really cool, a very big episode about persuasion
0:05.1	and another big episode about people who are working to create new online environments that will
0:11.8	combat misinformation, that will help us to deliberate and argue and persuade each other
0:17.6	better in places that aren't actually face to face. All that coming soon. So until then,
0:23.8	I thought I would give you socks and crocs, parts one and two mush together into a giant mega
0:29.6	episode. And that is what this episode will be. See you in two weeks.
0:54.8	Welcome to the you are not so smart podcast episode 200.
1:04.3	Really pressing issue that has dominated the news this week. Can we get a visual of this dress?
1:28.0	No more visuals. There's a dress that's going all around the internet that some people insist
1:35.2	is blue and black because it is and some people because their eyes are defective are insisting that
1:41.2	it is white and gold. What colors do you see when you look at this dress? Blue and black?
1:56.5	Or is it white and gold? The fabric of this dress nearly caused the fabric of the internet to
2:02.5	unravel overnight with people engaged in spirited debate over the dress's color.
2:14.8	That darn dress. You know the one I'm talking about. It's been inescapable today dividing the
2:19.5	world between those who see white and gold and those who see blue and black. I don't see any white and gold.
2:24.9	Across the country this is no joke. I don't understand that it's obviously white and gold.
2:28.8	It is blue and black.
2:34.1	It's blue and black. This suit is purple. The tie is purple.
2:37.7	The tie is purple. Okay. There you go. Boom.
2:41.8	This is very obviously white and gold. It's blue. It's obviously blue.
2:45.8	I cannot see blue anywhere in that dress. I don't even know how you can see blue.
2:50.5	It's all coming any faster. It's a fact that you're smarter if you see it in black and blue.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from You Are Not So Smart, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of You Are Not So Smart and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.