Our Noisy Minds

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman says there are invisible factors that distort our judgment. He calls these factors “noise.” The consequences can be found in everything from marriage proposals to medical diagnoses and prison sentences. This week on Hidden Brain, we consider how to identify noise in the world, and in our own lives. If you like our work, please consider supporting it! See how you can help at support.hiddenbrain.org. And to learn more about human behavior and ideas that can improve your life, subscribe to our newsletter at news.hiddenbrain.org.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:03.1	We're going to start today with a little experiment.
0:06.0	I'll be the guinea pig.
0:08.0	I'm going to open the stopwatch app on my phone.
0:11.5	I'll hit start and count off 5 seconds while looking at the phone.
0:17.0	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
0:23.0	Okay, let me do that again.
0:25.0	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
0:32.0	Okay, now I'm going to hit start and count off 5 seconds without looking at the phone.
0:40.0	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
0:46.0	It was 5.43 seconds.
0:50.0	Let's do it again.
0:51.0	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
0:58.0	Much better. 5.2 seconds.
1:02.0	Last time.
1:04.0	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
1:10.0	5.59 seconds.
1:16.0	The errors I made seemed trivial.
1:19.0	But it turns out they are not.
1:24.0	Multiply the small mistakes I made in milliseconds over all the countless decisions I make every day,
1:30.0	and you can end up with a serious problem.
1:36.0	Multiply the errors I make as an individual by an entire society made up of other error prone humans,
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