4.7 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00.0 | Year by year, the number of Nicholas Cage movies made correlates with the number of people who drown in swimming pools. |
0:14.6 | Welcome to the Art of Charm. I'm Jordan Harbinger and I'm here with producer Jason de Filippo. |
0:19.4 | On this episode we'll be talking with Daniel Levitton. |
0:22.4 | He's the author of Weaponized Lies, great title. |
0:25.3 | We're living in an age of information overload. |
0:27.3 | We're constantly bombarded by information. |
0:29.1 | It's getting harder and harder to tell what's true and what's not. |
0:32.5 | Misinformation, disinformation, irresponsible information. |
0:36.3 | We're going to try to help everyone make better decisions and to think more effectively about the information you encounter. |
0:41.7 | In your day-to-day life, today we'll explore critical thinking techniques involving experts, |
0:46.5 | pseudo experts, data charts, words and numbers, |
0:48.9 | and we'll learn some techniques to think more critically and dismantle arguments on the fly. |
0:53.9 | And last but not least, we'll find out why the average person only has one testicle and what that means for you. |
0:59.5 | So enjoy this episode with Daniel Levitton. |
1:04.3 | A lot of folks, when they think about these topics, they think, |
1:07.1 | yeah, you know what? Other people sure are dumb and they hit Miss Leta Lot. |
1:12.4 | But I looked at this newspaper article the other day and it said that half of all humans only have one testicle that was shocking. |
1:20.3 | We need to do something about that. |
1:22.3 | That's actually, of course, is almost true given that half the population has no testicles. |
1:26.9 | These kinds of things are not always so simple, |
1:30.1 | but I think that even people who are educated, smart, |
1:34.5 | and think that they think critically, |
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