Could you land a plane in an emergency?
NO SUCH THING
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Do you think you’d be able to successfully land a plane, with no prior pilot experience and relying only on air traffic control assistance? A YouGov survey found 13% of people are “very confident” that they could. In this episode, we explore why some people (like Manny) are prone to overconfidence, with help from social psychologist and professor David Dunning.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Mani. |
| 0:00.9 | I'm Noah. |
| 0:01.6 | And this is Devin. |
| 0:02.4 | And this is no such thing. |
| 0:03.9 | A show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. |
| 0:09.1 | On today's episode, we explore the concept of confidence and more specifically overconfidence, |
| 0:15.2 | as I attempt to do something I have absolutely no business attempting. |
| 0:21.2 | There's no such thing. |
| 0:23.0 | No such thing. |
| 0:25.9 | No such thing. |
| 0:29.0 | No such thing. |
| 0:30.9 | No such a thing. |
| 0:31.9 | No such a thing. |
| 0:35.3 | So there's a survey that's gone around. |
| 0:37.2 | It came out early last year. |
| 0:39.0 | And here's the question, and then I'll ask for your answers. |
| 0:41.9 | This is from you gov. |
| 0:43.6 | The question is, how confident are you that you could safely land a passenger airplane in an emergency situation, relying only on the assistance of air traffic control? |
| 0:52.4 | And you can answer very confident, somewhat confident, not very confident, not at all |
| 0:58.6 | confident, or not sure. |
| 1:00.4 | And this, you're not, you're not landing it by yourself. |
| 1:03.2 | Like someone's, they're on the phone with you, telling you what to do. |
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