SYSK Selects: All We Know About Guessing

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Guessing is a weird thing. For millennia, it could have meant the difference between life and death. Now it's not as vital, but we still do it every day, whether behind the wheel of a car, or judging what another person might be feeling. In this classic episode, learn everything we know about the brain and how it manages this odd, very human act.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:30.9	Hi everyone, it's your pal Josh and for this week's S.Y.S. Case Selects, I've chosen how guessing works.
0:36.6	It was one of those great ideas for a topic that didn't pan out to have much information on it actually.
0:42.2	So we just talked a lot about subjective stuff instead.
0:45.7	And it turned out well, I think, in the end if I may say so.
0:49.9	Hope you enjoy.
0:54.8	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
1:05.6	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
1:08.2	I'm Josh Clark.
1:09.5	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
1:11.2	Jerry's over there in the corner.
1:13.0	Everybody puts Jerry in a corner.
1:16.4	But you should.
1:17.9	And this is Step You Should Know.
1:19.4	She's the opposite of baby.
1:21.1	Jerry's back.
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