![]() On Idea Channel he applies philosophical and critical concepts to pop-culture ideas and other more-familiar topics in an effort to better explain to a general, internet-savvy audience the strange and abstract propositions he explores in wonderful detail. Mike Rugnetta is the writer and host of PBS Idea Channel produced by PBS Digital Studios. He is an award-winning creative lead on a number of other projects including School Of Thought. Jesse Richardson is the founder of, a fantastic website where you can learn about fallacies and critical thinking and easily share what you discover. Head over to the YANSS Patreon Page for more details.īarbara Drescher is a cognitive psychologist and skeptical activist who lectured at California State University and served as educational programs consultant for the James Randi Educational Foundation. Support the show directly by becoming a patron! Get episodes one-day-early and ad-free. For a free trial and ten percent off go to and use the offer code SOSMART. This episode of You Are Not So Smart is brought to you by Squarespace, the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website or online portfolio. Start FOR FREE with The Fundamentals of Photography filmed in partnership with The National Geographic and taught by professional photographer Joel Sartore. Get unlimited access to a huge library of The Great Courses lecture series on many fascinating subjects. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus. Go to MackWeldon.Com and get 20% off using promo code SOSMART. They want you to be comfortable, so If you don't like your first garment, you can keep it, and they will still refund you. All of their products (shirts, socks, sweats, underwear) are naturally antimicrobial (which means they eliminate odor). This episode is brought to you by Mack Weldon who believes in smart design, premium fabrics and simple shopping. The first episode is here.ĭownload – iTunes – Stitcher – RSS – Soundcloud This episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is the fifth in a full season of episodes exploring logical fallacies. Listen as three experts in reasoning and logic explain why it is so easy to find what you are looking for when you go anomaly hunting in a large set of data. Since you are born looking for those spots where chance events have built up like sand into dunes, picking out clusters of coincidence is a predicable malfunction of a normal human mind, and it can easily lead to the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy. Though some things in life seem too amazing to be coincidence, too odd to be random, too similar to be chance, given enough time (and enough events) randomness will begin to clump up in places. When you desire meaning, when you want things to line up, when looking for something specific, you tend to notice patterns everywhere, which leads you to ask the question, "What are the odds?" Usually, the odds are actually pretty good.įor instance: Does the Bermuda Triangle seem quite as mysterious once you know that just about any triangle of that size drawn over the globe just about anywhere planes and ships frequently travel will contain as many, if not more, missing planes and ships?ĭrawing circles (or triangles) around the spots where randomness clusters together seemingly chance events is called The Texas Sharpshooter fallacy, and it is one of the easiest mistakes to make when trying to understand big, complex sets of data.
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