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🗓️ 24 December 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
0:07.0 | This is the James Altiger show. |
0:14.0 | James there's another one that's like Stephen Pinker, you know the Harvard famous Harvard |
0:17.4 | psychologist. |
0:18.4 | There's this effect that you can get people to change their mind. |
0:21.6 | So you say like you go out to dinner, waiter says we've got blueberry pie and we've got |
0:26.2 | apple pie for dessert. |
0:28.0 | Which would you like and then you say blueberry and then they go into the kitchen and they |
0:32.2 | come back out and then they say oh we also have rhubarb pie and then and he said oh in |
0:37.5 | that case I'll have the apple pie. |
0:40.0 | Like you just gave totally useless like the original choice is blueberry versus apple. |
0:45.2 | Then you got irrelevant information like it could be like the Padres one. |
0:48.6 | Oh okay then I'll change my order from blueberry to apple but it's like the additional information |
0:53.8 | causes this bias to the human mind that now they're going to invert it's like the prisoners |
0:58.2 | dilemma or something like you have to change your frame immediately. |
1:02.0 | Well you know there's a math problem that parallels that right? |
1:05.0 | The Monte Hall problem. |
1:06.0 | Yeah yeah yeah. |
1:07.0 | So I wonder if it's in the brain somehow connected that way. |
1:10.2 | Yeah that's interesting. |
1:11.2 | Yeah I mean just in terms of like there's no actual information that I can bet like literally |
1:15.4 | I could say there's an old Ford Model T down the street and there's also now I change |
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