Plastic vs. Wood Cutting Boards, What Water Tastes Like, and Predicting Others’ Behavior

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

It's Easier to Predict Other People's Behavior Than Your Own
Should You Be Using Plastic or Wood Cutting Boards?
Why You Should Never Wash Raw Chicken
What Does Water Taste Like? Science Finally Has an Answer

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.0	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	Today you'll learn why it's easier to predict other people's behavior than your own,
0:11.0	when you should use plastic or wood cutting boards and what water
0:14.0	tastes like according to science. Let's set us up some curiosity.
0:17.5	Cody have you ever noticed how it's easier to know what your best friend or your significant other is about to do than it is to know what
0:26.4	you're about to do?
0:27.4	Yeah, it's weird.
0:28.4	Yeah, because you know them so well, right?
0:30.4	And so if you were given a scenario, like what thing on the menu do you think they'd choose
0:35.7	you'd you'd always know but for you it's like oh I'm a complex person I just you know I have so many
0:42.2	different preferences like who knows what I would I just as
0:45.0	as I have so many different preferences that who knows what I would choose on this menu
0:45.8	even though you are just as predictable as anybody else.
0:49.3	Well now I'm very curious why. Well curiosity looked into this and we found out why.
0:54.3	Writing for the British Psychological Society, researcher David Dunning
0:57.9	discussed several studies he'd conducted since 2000 on how well people
1:01.7	can predict their own behavior.
1:03.6	And the people in Dunning's studies were about as accurate at predicting their own future
1:07.3	behavior as they were at guessing the behavior of total strangers.
1:11.3	There were a couple of factors at play here. The first is what Dunning calls the holier-than-thou effect. That's where people are likely to predict that they'll engage in more good or charitable behaviors than their peers will. In one study, Dunning asked participants to guess how likely they would be to buy a Daffodil for a fundraising drive.
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