YANSS 333 - Selective Perception - Jay Van Bavel
You Are Not So Smart
You Are Not So Smart
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:17.0 | Middle of the show. |
| 0:33.0 | On January 7, 26, United States Federal Agents shot and killed Renee Good. |
| 0:42.3 | And on January 24, 26, United States federal agents shot and killed Alex Prettie. These shootings took place during protests over the conduct of immigration agents. |
| 0:47.3 | And the people who died, they were protesters. |
| 0:50.3 | Each incident, each shooting, each killing, was recorded on video by bystanders, and those |
| 0:57.5 | videos spread all across the internet, social media everywhere. |
| 1:01.9 | People shared those videos online, those recordings of federal agents, shooting and killing |
| 1:06.8 | Renee Good, and then a few weeks later, the videos of the shooting and killing of Alex |
| 1:12.7 | Pruddy. |
| 1:15.0 | In each time, afterward, online and off, people began to disagree about what they saw in those |
| 1:23.6 | videos, the truth of them. Politicians made statements about those videos, and in those videos, the truth of them. |
| 1:28.3 | Politicians made statements about those videos, and in those statements, they disagreed |
| 1:32.3 | about what they saw. |
| 1:34.3 | I watched those videos, and to me, those shootings looked unjustified. |
| 1:40.3 | They looked like murders. |
| 1:43.3 | So, like many people, I was initially shocked when I read comments and saw commentary in which |
| 1:49.8 | people disagreed with what I thought I was seeing with my own eyes, what seemed indisputable. |
| 1:58.0 | I was shocked and astounded. |
| 2:00.2 | Even though I was aware of the fact that psychology has been |
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