264 - Nobody's Fool - Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris

You Are Not So Smart

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In an era in which we have more information available to us than ever before, when claims of “fake news” might themselves be, in fact, fake news, Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, authors of The Invisible Gorilla, are back to offer us a vital tool to not only inoculate ourselves against getting infected by misinformation but prevent us from spreading it to others, a new book titled Nobody's Fool.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:27.4	Episode 264.
0:45.6	If we'd known that that video when we first made it was going to go viral, this was before YouTube,
0:50.4	right? So we would have probably filmed it in better quality.
0:53.6	I feel so fortunate to have one greatest hit.
0:56.6	I'll keep on playing it as long as anybody wants to hear it.
1:05.8	Those are the voices of Dan Simons and Christopher Shabrie and what they're talking about
1:10.8	is their mega-famous invisible gorilla experiment, which is one of those
1:14.4	psychological experiments that just about everyone has heard of because
1:18.8	it's also one that everyone has seen because it is one of the first things
1:22.9	that truly went viral on YouTube and then the internet at large.
1:27.8	And if you've never seen this video, well, stop now and go to YouTube and look up the invisible
1:33.6	gorilla. I'll just wait a second for you to probably not go do that and now I will tell you that
1:41.2	in the video you are asked up front to count the number of times a basketball gets passed back
1:47.6	and forth between some people in a relatively small room and then they start passing it back
1:52.8	and forth. And by the end, most people feel like they've counted the number of passes and they
1:58.0	get ready to see their score. Then the video says, did you see the gorilla? Because most people
2:03.5	fail to recall seeing a person wearing a gorilla suit walking very obviously on screen,
2:10.1	then through the group and then off screen, which is what happens in the video. When you watch
2:14.0	it a second or third time, it freaks you out and then you can't wait to show it to other people
2:20.0	hence the virality of this thing. It's an example of something called unintentional blindness and
2:25.6	Daniel Simons and Christopher Shabrie would then go on to write a mega best-selling book about
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