Episode 3: When Uncertainty Hides in the Blindspot of Overconfidence
Science Talk
Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:40.6 | Your article could cause new cancer deaths. |
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| 0:57.0 | I looked up your bio and was totally unimpressed. |
| 1:01.5 | You call yourself a science writer? |
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| 1:19.5 | bashing them for no good reason. Christy Ashwondon should not be allowed to write for any magazine. |
| 1:24.3 | Maybe she has no friends. Maybe that's the real problem here. |
| 1:33.3 | I'm Christy Ashwondon, and this is Uncertain from Scientific American. |
| 1:46.5 | Today, we've got a show in two acts, exploring how studies can make us so overconfident that we lose sight of the underlying uncertainty. |
| 1:50.5 | Act 1, the backfire effect. |
| 1:54.0 | Back in 2011, I gave a short talk at a journalism conference about what I had learned from |
| 1:58.9 | hate mail. |
| 2:00.2 | The bottom line I said was that if you tell |
| 2:02.5 | people that they're wrong about something they hold dear, they will immediately get defensive. |
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