Taking Debate

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

When you don’t know the actual, statistical likelihood of something, the brain uses the most readily surfaceable image. This is known as the availability heuristic, and it has been used by politicians to create unrealistic concepts that stick for decades. In light of the current political climate, Anthony and Jeff discuss this phenomenon, and how we can protect ourselves against it.

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0:00.0	Merchandising, merchandising.
0:02.9	Yeah, that's a good way to start this.
0:04.8	That lets people know that we're just, we're still their regular,
0:07.6	we're regular old friends that don't want anything from them except their money.
0:11.2	What's up?
0:11.9	Now we've got merch for you.
0:14.4	Go to wehaveconservids.com slash shop and check out the new Brock Life T-shirt,
0:18.6	Sam and Canon T-shirt, Jetpack Rescue Squad T-shirt.
0:21.2	So many T-shirt!
0:30.0	Oh, classic mistake.
0:32.7	Classic mistake.
0:34.0	Never open the monster box.
0:35.5	This is we have concerned, Sai Jeff Kanata.
0:37.6	All right, then, Karboni.
0:38.8	Hello, concerned citizens, Jeff.
0:41.6	Do you follow politics much?
0:43.2	Unfortunately.
0:45.2	More and more.
0:46.2	It's not so much I follow politics, it's that politics follows me.
0:50.0	Yeah.
0:51.0	It's that I can't.
0:52.0	I can't.
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