Explanations That Are Often Wrong Part I

This episode features:


-Are smart phones causing young people to be more lonely and
depressed


-How can the supplement industry stay afloat if so many
supplements are useless


-Discussion of how a paper on psychic powers got published in a
top psychology journal


-Why people are often less incompetent than you think


-Why so many professors are bad teachers


-What style of thinking is associated with making successful
predictions of the future


-Why do so many people still reject evolution


-Does eating chocolate make you more likely to win the Nobel
Prize?  (No.)


 


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-References-


Unapplied Rationality:


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values buffers neuroendocrine and psychological stress responses.
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Kelemen, D. (1999). The scope of teleological thinking in
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Lindbeck, A. (1972) The Political Economy of the New Left. New
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Maurage, P., Heeren, A., & Pesenti, M. (2013). Does Chocolate
Consumption Really Boost Nobel Award Chances? The Peril of
Over-Interpreting Correlations in Health Studies, 2. The Journal
of nutrition, 143(6), 931-933.


Tetlock, P. E. (2017). Expert political judgment: How good is it?
How can we know?. Princeton University Press.


Twenge, J. M. (2017). IGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are
Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and
Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the
Rest of Us. Simon and Schuster.


Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates


Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?


In U.S., Belief in Creationist View of Humans at New Low


Letter: A riddle about liberals


Let's call the pro-lifers what they are: pro-death


Self-affirmation Wikipedia


Secret to Winning a Nobel Prize? Eat More Chocolate


Teens: This is how social media affects your brain



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