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Why We Get Warning Fatigue, Prehistoric Monkeys Crossed the Atlantic on Rafts, and Why New Lovebirds Feel So Familiar

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Learn about a bias in your brain that makes you ignore security warnings; why people who fall in love feel like they’ve known each other for years; and a crew of prehistoric monkeys that crossed the Atlantic Ocean on rafts.

You ignore more than just your browser security warnings because of "warning fatigue" by Grant Currin

Why do people in love feel like they've known each other for years? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Jonathan)

Crew of prehistoric monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America by Grant Currin

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0:00.0

Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.

0:06.0

I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer.

0:08.0

Today you learn about a bias in your brain that makes you ignore security warnings and will answer a listener question

0:13.1

about why people who fall in love feel like they've known each other for years.

0:16.5

You'll also learn about a crew of prehistoric monkeys that crossed the Atlantic

0:21.4

ocean on rafts.

0:23.0

I'm going to let that one sink in for a second.

0:26.0

Okay, great, let's satisfy some curiosity.

0:29.0

Computers flash security warnings all the time.

0:34.0

New security patches, suspicious websites, potential fishing attempts, the list goes on.

0:40.3

You have definitely seen these and probably ignored almost all of them.

0:44.4

But don't feel too bad, a lot of people do.

0:47.5

Researchers blame it on a phenomenon called warning fatigue

0:51.5

and they're still figuring out how to deal with it.

0:54.0

In 2013, Google funded a study to figure out how they could design security warnings

0:59.0

so people would actually avoid clicking risky links.

1:02.0

They looked at 25 million instances. avoid clicking risky links.

1:03.0

They looked at 25 million instances of people seeing a warning and found that users ignored

1:08.5

them between 10 and 75 percent of the time.

1:13.3

Usually they ignored warnings they had seen before.

1:16.4

So to cut down on that warning fatigue,

1:18.3

the recommendation was simple.

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