Mindset Flashcards
Mastery
why is it formed this way
- Fact is a piece of information supported by evidence (rigorous)
- Assumptions are things that are believed to be true
- Opinions are aggregates of individual attitudes or beliefs held by a population
Asch experiment
what is it?
Typically, only about ~….% of participants report knowingly going along with the group.
Of that remaining 74% only ~
….% report feeling something wasn’t quite right and ~ ….% have no idea that their answers were incorrect!
Group conformity, 4 actors saying different line length then what is there. will i say something is the same because other people say that?
Typically, only about ~36% of participants report knowingly going along with the group. Of that remaining 74% only ~32% report feeling something wasn’t quite right and ~ 42% have no idea that their answers were incorrect!
How 3 Biases shape your world view…
and breakdown each one
CDC
* Confirmation Bias * Dunning-Kruger effect * Cognitive dissonance
- Confirmation Bias: “We tend to only look at information that supports our beliefs”
- Dunning-Kruger effect : “The difficulty judging our own competence”
- Cognitive dissonance: “Simply put, if we believe one thing, then we are motivated to act in a way that fits with the belief”
Cognitive dissonance is …
eg…
Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort a person feels when their behavior does not align with their values or beliefs.
You want to be healthy, but you don’t exercise regularly or eat a nutritious diet.
Are smart people ruining democracy?
Motivated numeracy….
Being curious helps…
consider the control group too. consider all info presented to you
- In this paper it was demonstrated that very smart people tend to dig into their beliefs and use their advanced ability with numbers to distort the data so that it would support their own viewpoint when faced with data that contradicted their world view
Being curious helps be less biased about numbers
- Ptolemy vs Copernicus
- Ideology verse science…
- Who had which viewpoint?
- Which was based on Science at the time?
🌍 Ptolemy (Geocentric Model)
Viewpoint: Earth is at the center of the universe; everything revolves around it.
Supported by: The Catholic Church and dominant ideology of the time.
☀️ Copernicus (Heliocentric Model)
Viewpoint: The Sun is at the center; Earth and planets revolve around it.
Inspired by: Ancient Greek ideas (like Aristarchus) + personal observations + mathematical simplicity.
Confirmation bias and the YouTube algorithm
* YouTube search algorithm recommendations how does this work?
- You are presented / recommended content based on…
- You need to take an active role in….
- You need to approach this task with a sceptical mind and a curiosity !
- Hopefully, I have given you some useful tools to do this
Confirmation bias and the YouTube algorithm
* YouTube search algorithm recommendations how does this work?
- You are presented / recommended content based on what you have previously watched, liked, recommended.. (confirmation bias here we come)
- You need to take an active role in censoring / understanding / fact checking the information that you are consuming.
- You need to approach this task with a sceptical mind and a curiosity !
- Hopefully, I have given you some useful tools to do this
in the event of Apollo 11 crash
in the event of Apollo 11 crash the US government had a video they would air to the public, which we would accept as fact
A contingency speech for this possibility was prepared for, but never delivered by, President Nixon – until now.
Event of Moon Disaster is an immersive art project inviting you into an alternative history, asking us all to consider how new technologies can bend, redirect and obfuscate the truth around us.
To construct the story a variety of techniques of misinformation were used – from simple deceptive editing to more complex deepfakes technologies.
which one helps more
politics?
- gun control
legal gun control, and no carrying firearms
republicans, gun control increases crime, they get it right
when gun control decreases crime, numeracy decreases and they get it wrong
reversed for democrats
beliefs of most people are not made by unbiased view of sata
bigger number means help more, but if you look at PROPORTIONS, NO CREAM IS BETTER
