Hey it's Joel, we kind of have a special treat for you this week on the podcast.

We were looking through some of our old files on our computer and found a recording we had done

a few years ago and decided to release it because it's a good

recording talked about some interesting topics and it's from the archives we

thought well this is a shame just let this go to waste so that's what we're

doing this week this is a little bit of an older So that's what we're doing this week. This is a little bit of an older

podcast that's been released now, so it's kind of interesting to hear us back in the day

before some of the audio equipment and some of the, I would call it, Polish that we've

developed in the last few years. So enjoy

this podcast from the archives.

Hi welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast. my name is Joel Mark Witt and I'm

Antonia Dodge and in this podcast I want to read an essay that I got out of the book

called This Will Make You Smarter, which is a, it's like a collection of essays from the world's, well what this book and Edge.org considers to be the world's most influential thinkers and they

were all asked the question what scientific concept would improve everyone everybody's

cognitive toolkit so the whole book has been really interesting these essays are

pretty sure they're like a couple pages. I think some of them were like three or four pages at the most.

And I found the whole book to be really interesting, but when I caught this one, I mean it's short enough to read on a podcast and I think it has a powerful enough idea

actually it's something I think that we talk about a lot and I thought it was good enough to read and

discuss the concept of.

The essay is from Catherine Schultz who's a journalist and she's the writer of a book called

Being Wrong Adventures in the Margin of Error. The essay is entitled The Pessimistic

Meta Induction from the History of Science and this is how it starts out. She

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