Ep. 1208: Christopher Chabris Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Christopher Chabris, a cognitive psychologist and a well-known researcher in the fields of psychology and human cognition. He is most famous for his work on the "invisible gorilla" experiment, which he conducted during his graduate studies at Harvard University along with Daniel Simons. This experiment demonstrated the phenomenon of "inattentional blindness," where people fail to notice unexpected objects or events if their attention is focused on a different task.
The topic is his co-authored book Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Cognitive biases and their impact on perception and deception
- Stepping back from heated debates
- Scams, frauds, and deceptions
- Selective data analysis and confirmation bias
- Vaccines and politics
- Thinking critically and seeking truth in divisive topics
- Examining COVID, gender, and Trump through a framework
- Information curation
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.6 | My guest today is Christopher Shabree. |
| 0:35.8 | He is the author of a book called Nobody's Fool, Why We Get |
| 0:39.2 | Taken in and What We Can Do About It. His co-author, Daniel Simons, they have both appeared on my podcast |
| 0:45.3 | in prior years. This is one of these scientific method 101 thinkings, be a skeptic, dive in, |
| 0:53.9 | ask questions, tear it apart, find out what's |
| 0:56.7 | inside, get to the bottom of it. |
| 1:00.5 | I say it in this conversation to Christopher, but I firmly believe that if the framework that |
| 1:06.2 | him and Daniel layout could be applied to our most controversial issues, we would all be much better off as a |
| 1:13.6 | species. The scientific method is magic. Digging in and unpacking things, finding out the truth, |
| 1:22.1 | searching for the truth, at least is magic. Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation today with Christopher |
| 1:30.4 | Shabree and get at the big topic of Nobody's Fool, why we get taken in and what we can do |
| 1:37.3 | about it. |
| 1:38.1 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:56.7 | This is one of these topics that comes across my desk, Chris, where even though I knew you a little bit, we had talked before. |
| 2:05.1 | This topic, the topic of your newest book, I really did not even have to open the damn thing to know that I wanted to talk to you about this subject. Now, I see a lot of books, a lot of |
| 2:10.8 | publishers, a lot of PR people. Mike, check this author out, check this author out. |
| 2:15.4 | And a lot of things these days feel lightweight. |
| 2:20.6 | They don't feel like there's some grist there, some meat to the bone. But I saw where you guys |
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