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My favorite example is that the number of people who die from getting entangled in their bed sheets is correlated with the per capita consumption of cheese.

So I suppose you could spin a story that people who want to die by strangulation in their bed sheets decide to have one last rich meal of cheese.

And so they go out and buy a whole lot of it, or maybe people eat a whole bunch of cheese and they get into a dairy-induced stupor and end up strangling themselves.

But more likely these two things are unrelated.

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Today we're talking with Daniel Levedin. He's the author of Weaponized Lies, great title, by the way. We're living in an age of information overload. We're constantly bombarded by info, right?

It's getting harder and harder to tell what's true and what's not.

Misinformation, disinformation, irresponsible information. We're going to try and help everyone make better decisions and to think more effectively about the information you encounter in your day-to-day life.

Today we'll explore critical thinking techniques involving experts, pseudo experts, data charts, words and numbers, and we'll learn some techniques to think more critically and dismantle arguments on the fly.

And last but not least, we'll find out why the average person only has one testicle and what that means for you.

So enjoy this episode with Daniel Levedin.

A lot of folks, when they think about these topics, they think, yeah, you know what? Other people sure are dumb and they hit misled a lot.

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. We need to do something about that.

That, actually, of course, is almost true given that half the population has no testicles.

These kinds of things are not always so simple, but I think that even people who are educated, smart, and think that they think critically, sometimes are the ones that fall victim to this stuff even more.

I think the most important quality to have if you want to be an evidence-based thinker, a critical thinker, is humility.

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