267 - Do Your Own Research - Sedona Chinn

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🗓️ 19 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Sedona Chinn, a researcher who studies how people make sense of competing scientific, environmental, and health-related claims, joins us to discuss her latest research into doing your own research. In her latest paper she found that the more a person values the concept of doing your own research, the less likely that person is to...actually do their own research. In the episode we explore the origin of the concept, what that phrase really means, and the implications of her study on everything from politics to vaccines to conspiratorial thinking.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the you are not so smart podcast episode
0:28.0	267
0:46.0	we don't necessarily have any evidence that people who strongly support doing your
0:52.0	own research do their own research do your own research do your own research
1:05.2	do your own research is a ton of it right on you know at the tip of your
1:09.5	fingers on your own phone what we say when we're saying I need to do more
1:16.6	research is that you just want to see enough information to convince you that
1:20.8	your decision is correct that's all we're saying in order of appearance that was
1:28.6	Dr. Sedona Chin pendant Sean Hannity and comedian Trevor Noah all talking
1:34.4	about that phrase this concept the imperative declaration do your own
1:41.4	research and to reiterate what Sedona Chin was saying here she is reiterating
1:47.4	what she was saying people who really strongly support doing their own research
1:51.9	aren't necessarily doing any more research than anyone else Chin is our guest
1:55.6	in this episode she studies science communication at the University of Wisconsin
2:00.2	Madison more specifically she studies how individuals make sense of
2:04.1	competing claims about science and health and the environment she just
2:08.7	published a paper on her research into doing your own research in which she
2:15.2	studied the people who use this phrase the most the people who are most likely to
2:19.7	tell other people they ought to do their own research and she found that compared
2:25.6	to people who are less likely to use that phrase the people who are most likely to
2:30.7	tell you to do your own research don't actually do that themselves in fact over
2:37.4	time by comparison she found that they held more incorrect beliefs and had
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