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Rashon Newberry

The Vertical Jump - The Science Behind It - 0 views

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Anna Wermuth

The Science of Lying - YouTube - 0 views

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    Great video by Hank Green on the basic scientific principles behind why people lie
Moeishia King

Why Smart People Are Stupid : The New Yorker - 0 views

  • intelligence seems to make things worse. The scientists gave the students four measures of “cognitive sophistication.” As they report in the paper, all four of the measures showed positive correlations, “indicating that more cognitively sophisticated participants showed larger bias blind spots.”
    • Moeishia King
       
      Could potentially be a great base for my research.
  • smarter people (at least as measured by S.A.T. scores) and those more likely to engage in deliberation were slightly more vulnerable to common mental mistakes.
  • Education also isn’t a savior; as Kahneman and Shane Frederick first noted many years ago, more than fifty per cent of students at Harvard, Princeton, and M.I.T. gave the incorrect answer to the bat-and-ball question
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  • The problem with this introspective approach is that the driving forces behind biases—the root causes of our irrationality—are largely unconscious, which means they remain invisible to self-analysis and impermeable to intelligence
    • Moeishia King
       
      Make sure to look more into because seems to be a start for an explanation.
  • Kahneman, who admits in “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
  • A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. The bat costs a dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
Austin Wampler

Science Behind Aircraft Carriers - 0 views

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