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Dear Sir,
The availability heuristic link has no pulse. And I have a presentation on Tuesday in my Cog Psy grad course including the availability heuristic (along with representativeness and anchoring and adjustment) in which I would love to use a self test.
Can you help me get to this thing? Please?
Thank you for your kind consideration and assistance with my request.
Sincerely,
Mark
The link and the test on the page it links to both work fine for me. I just tested both again.
I’m not sure why you are having problems, but it may be a browser issue.
This is the message I get.
“We were unable to return you to uwp.edu.” Don’t know why it says that if it never took me there with which to begin.
I”m using IE8, which really stinks at times. I’ll try FireFox.
Wow. I try it on FireFox and it closes the browser even if I try to open it in a new tab or in a new window. I’m using a university computer on the university’s network. Interesting. Hope there is a solution… before Tuesday.
Thank you for trying. I’m certainly willing to entertain (treasure, actually) any more ideas or suggestions about getting this to work.
Mark
Um. I got it to work from one of the other pages either on your site or from a link on your site. I believe you either added links to assist or as was indicated in an explanation above the new links, they were automatically generated based on my search interests or something? Obviously not a verbatim extraction but I believe that was the meaning and purpose of that feature. Pretty cool, actually.
Thank you for giving this your attention. I have claimed several pages on your site as “Favorites” for further reading. What you have here is much more conducive to (my) actually learning processes than what I’m doing in my lecture class, although I have nothing but contempt for on-line classes. That’s because too many (of my current and past) instructors didn’t/don’t give the effort required to teach an online class.
You’ve helped me a lot and will be duly cited.
Mark
You need to put a Facebook “Like” button on this website. Not a “Share” button, that one is obnoxious, but a “Like” button.
I would prefer a share button. There’s a lot of good stuff here.
I would like a purple button.
No way Mike, fuschia is the way to go
Julia’s right, Mike. Fuschia, I can’t refuse ya.
I agree, sometimes the subtlety of a ‘like’ is all that needs to be said. This blog is the perfect antidote to the vapid, inane bullshit specific to Facebook. The people that most need to read these words are more responsive to a ‘like’ than a link.
You should start providing proper citations to the work you reference in these posts. While very interesting, a lack of citations decreases the credibility of the content and increases the difficulty in performing further study.
Indeed. I recognized this right after I was republished on Gizmodo. I will do this for all new posts, and soon will go back through all the old posts to revise citations. Thanks.
I found this website through a mention on – I think – a Rocketboom episode. It’s so cool! I’ve shared it with my best friend and she loves it too. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for reading; I’m glad to have you on board.
Dave,
Just found your blog. I run a blog that covers some of our psychological misjudgments called Farnam Street. I think you’d enjoy it.
Wonderful blog. Google Reader suggested it to me. Thank you, Google Reader, and thank you, Mr. McRaney. Your posts remind me of Cordelia Fine’s book, “A Mind of its Own”, but with more of a social bent. I like them a lot. Please keep writing.
I’m all confused over the implications of merely reading what I see as quite depressing aspects of our own failings as people…What can be done to soften the blows of this knowledge? I find it difficult to control my own feelings over these things, despite my great interest in the shortcomings that we have.
Nevertheless to say, your articles are quite informative [but I don't see any use in it].
Hi. I just found your blog; it’s great. A friend shared the post about “Selling Out”. I’ve been reading through the rest. I enjoy the little quotes you post apart from the main text in each — they keep leading me to other interesting things. Definitely gained a regular reader.
Thanks for reading.
Dave, I love what you are doing. You ought to write a few articles for us.- Chrstphr
David, as the eventually-old adage goes, “What has been seen cannot be unseen”, so thank you graciously for presenting the workings of our brain in such a punchy yet rich method — your writing is memorable. Case in point, I went to Google Images to learn more about Erin Esurance. Good lord.
Thanks. Yes, the Internet never ceases to creep us all out.
Here’s an interesting article that seems like something you might be able to work into one of your posts:
http://www.economist.com/node/16422414
Please provide some way of viewing your site with a larger font. Are you trying to make me go blind?
Hi. I just found your site and I’m enjoying it quite a bit. I like how each entry begins with the Misconception. It would be great if you had a page listing each entry by the misconception it addressed.
Your HTML markup doesn’t work well at all in Firefox 3.6 or Chrome 4.0. Both behave the same, there’s no left margin at all until the font size gets really small.
I’m guessing the website is done in .NET and tested only using IE? :/
@markh – I’m using WordPress and testing in Chrome and Firefox. I have no problems on my end, but I’m not messing around with the font size either.
this site is interesting
Here’s another good one:
“How facts backfire”
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/
Great blog.
Found from reddit link.
Keep it up.
@Pablo Rivera – Thanks.
Hi David,
Love your blog; I love a good and refreshing mental defeat! You write very well and (I believe) fairly, and that’s hard to do on these subjects. Truly wonderful fodder for my search for inform– (well, I guess it’s confirmation one way or another, huh. :)
Will be checking back for more, keep up the great work!
@Natalie Sklobovskaya – I’ll keep writing if you keep reading. Thanks.
I love your blog. Just discovered it today via Stumble, and added it to my Netvibes reader. I’m certainly seeding it among my friends, and I hope you keep writing for a long time.
Seriously, thanks for doing this.
I would like to subscribe to your blog.
This is great stuff. I really enjoy this site. With all our biases and fallacies it is amazing we haven’t destroyed ourselves yet. More people need to be educated about how stupid we all really are.
I don’t generally write or comment many of the blogs/websites I look at since I just don’t really bother getting around to it. Whether it’s appreciated or not, I’d like to thank you for you’re website and say it’s probably the most interesting one I’ve come across, and I am definitely going to be a dedicated reader from now on.
Thank you for this hilarious and thought provoking blog
I am glad to find this site.
Well my story is about a journey to find the truth.
Since very young (around seven years old) I trained myself to identify logical (formal and informal) fallacies then I immersed myself in the world of cognitive and memory biases.
From there at high school I started developing heuristics to filter out as much biases as possible (I had another journey on controlling emotions at will), which I found to be possible to achieve true objectiveness but it was tiresome as hell… At college I became so introspectively methodical (I called it “introspective scientific method”) that I almost felt that I opened a debug mode in my brain… so introspective that even my therapist was amazed… and overwhelmed, she said that only I was capable of doing it, but I wanted to prove her wrong by trying to standardize my methods and teaching others.
While at first I thought that being purely objective by pursuing knowledge and truth was something that everyone should pursue… but it is so exhausting, so exhausting. Now I wonder if the “ignorance is bliss” posture has its merits.
-Dan
A tired young man
Awesome site. Makes my website look like the triflings of a disgruntled pre-schooler.
great site, and i’ve enjoyed your take on things but i’m really intrigued by the guy at the top with a pipe. seems like a re-accuring theme, who is he?
You are such an excellent writer that I’ve been literally sitting here all night with a drink and reading everyone one of your posts. I could click through every link you display at the end of your articles (that I assume contain your sources), but your points resonate so easily with me that I don’t bother. I agree with most, if not all, of what you say but I somehow don’t find it boring. I’m not usually a fan of psychology but your skill as a writer make it seem entertaining, but more importantly, applicable. And for that I thank you.
But then again, what do I know?
You may find this article interesting
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-do-i-want-dont-ask-me-choice.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BpsResearchDigest+(BPS+Research+Digest)
Cheers,
Emme
Greetings from Finland.
I just recently found this site and I must tell you that it is very interesting, sometimes funny and challenging.
I have read only few posts so far but this will be my favourite now.
Thank you very much
You should update more regularly! I’ve been watching this blog since the beginning, and I was disappointed that right after the advertisements showed up, you stopped posting.
You guys are fucking retarded, for real. Halla back bitch.
Just wanted to say that this is one of the best blogs I’ve stumbled across in a long time. Even though I know a lot of these phenomena already (I’m a Cognitive Science major), I find your topics fascinating and your explanations very well-written. Looking forward to more posts.
I’m studying psychology in undergrad now, and your articles are more fun and accessible than my texts, so sometimes I read them when I should be doing homework. Hope it’s nice to know you’re reinforcing my studies and helping me procrastinate simultaneously, both of which are much appreciated.
Good stuff, this blog! Hear Hear!
I LOVE the site and hope we get more up there soon. A very welcomed and lovely distraction from the work day.
I stumbled across this last night and I have already read over 10 articles. I really enjoy your writing style and you topics are well chosen. Thanks for all your hard work.
You’re awesome. Be strong!
–Michael
Misconcepotion: Simplistic research in control conditions on one aspect of human thought or behavior is adequate for making recommendations on changing behaviors or lifestyles.
Truth: People are a lot more complex than such simplistic notions and any blanket suggestion will be harmful to some and helpful to others.
Example:
Your article on venting is both simplistic and inaccurate in several areas. I am a psychologist. There are dozens upon dozens of psychological research articles published on the mental health effects of repressing emotion versus expressing emotion. I would encourage you to use a resource like the PSYCHINFO database to research articles when you are delving into toppings related to human wellbeing or mental health. Referencing one simple cognitive research psychology article on the cognitive impacts of “venting” doesn’t really cut it when there are dozens of rigorous clinical psychology studies on the topic of anger management, repressing emotion, expressing emotion, etc.
Like much of the articles I’ve read on here this one was broadly simplistic, and while statistically might be correct on the margin, it isn’t that useful because individual cases are always unique and have varying attributes.
For example, a man with anger management problems (i.e. excessive “venting” leading to problems in his life like broken relationships and lost jobs) would be taught how to distract from his anger, observe his anger, use breathing techniques, etc. to treat the condition (behavioral therapy). Deeper psycho-dynamic work would go into examining the sources of his rage in previous life experience that are currently disconnected from his venting episodes. This would be a beneficial approach for him and no one would suggest venting as helpful in this particular case.
But a man with repressed anger leading to conditions like anxiety or depression, would be VERY MUCH ENCOURAGED TO VENT ANGER. In fact whole methods of therapy are developed just to get clients to access and express their emotions. And yes, psychologists do in fact recommend reading emotional books, watching emotional movies, and listening to emotional music to help clients with repressed emotions access emotional states and express them. These are effective techniques and well studies.
I suggest reading Marsha Linehan’s Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder if you would like to avail yourself of the self-delusion that the human mind is so simple that you can just proscribe a simplistic solution to problems such “don’t vent, its’ bad.” It is rigorously documented and the techniques have been thoroughly studies in controlled conditions for the last 15 years and are considered one of the best researched empirically-proven therapies.
@nandro My blog is not prescriptive, so no one should be reading my posts instead of seeking professional help.
I have thoroughly sourced and attributed those who support my take on venting, so if you have a beef with those in psychology who believe venting is counterproductive and never a good technique, it is with those researchers, not me. I am reporting here, not opining.
You comment is also full of straw men, views I do not have nor have expressed. Of course people are complex and nuanced; I would hope this is a concept which comes across again and again in my writing.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for the thoughtful comment.
Respected Sir,
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare
Your book is an imortant supplimentary evidence for defending above statement.The difference between pure facts and our individual perceptions / rationalizations in defence of our impulsive /thoughtful actions give rise to a number of situtations ranging from tragic to humourous.I also liked your direct and precise writing style laced with mentally stimulating illustrations.Last but not the least :
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. ~Niels Bohr
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. ~Milton Berle
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
Eagerly waiting for your next book…. P.D.Naik.
Would change the link to your facebook page to this: http://www.facebook.com/pages/You-Are-Not-So-Smart/126977487335917
Currently you are directing people to to edit functionality for your page, which re-directs for them if they manage any pages themselves.
Just wanted to say that I love this blog.
Best,
Ben
Just wanted to thank you so much for this great site. It has made me already have plenty of good thinks, for which I am very grateful. Especially the one concerning the illusion of transparency- time to brush off my anxiety when seeing guys I’m into!
Best of luck in the future!
Harry
I am an arts/film-dramatic writing student. I see grand visions which I know how to organize, yet my brain feels overwhelmed. It always seems to be put off til tomorrow. I understand we all have our issues and mine are not special. Although, losing 5 family members tied to Valentine’s Day does suck. This time of year I lose ambition despite the fact I have deadline after deadline.
The program which disables internet sounds promising. I always have an excuse to look up a word or call my surfing research. ugh pathetic. ugh ugh
Awesome blog, you are very good.
But PLEASE I need to be able to SUBSCRIBE to it so I can get your new posts as you publish them, too much procrastination as it is now without having to surf the web all the time ;)
A million thanks !
Quoi? Are you talking about something OTHER than the RSS feed behind that big orange RSS button at the top of every page? Oh look here it is again: http://youarenotsosmart.com/feed/
OK I am sorry I guess I meant an email distribution list where I get your new post per email, the only other blog I am “subscribed” too does that so I thought it was more common… I do not use RSS feeds, my bad :)
Awesome topics. Really caters to those who are autistic.
Can say honestly that if it wasn’t for the Wrong Planet website (website for people with Aspergers and Autism) I would never have heard of you.
BTW I need Blogging Traffic DESPERATELY. Let me guest post sometime. I know NTs are not so smart
@David McRaney,
GREAT site. I have really enjoyed reading your in-depth analysis of numerous issues. You have a way of framing issues in a way that is both intellectual, yet fascinating to read, even casually.
You recently wrote an article about the Sunk Cost Fallacy, through the example of Farmville. It was even covered on Kotaku.
I write for a student newspaper in Canada and decided to cover your article for my weekly video game article. Hopefully it will encourage people to come by and check out your website.
If you’d like to see the article I wrote, here it is:
http://ufvcascade.ca/2011/04/11/cascade-arcade-farmville-and-the-fear-of-loss/
post more!
Hi,
I’d just like to say that you did not expound much on metacognition on your post titled “Procrastination”. I found the concept of thinking about thinking interesting and wanted to know WHAT IT IS on your post but it wasn’t explained. As if it was mentioned and then you changed to another topic immediately:
“What started as an experiment about delayed gratification has now, decades later, yielded a far more interesting set of revelations about metacognition – thinking about thinking.
Mischel has followed the lives of all his subjects through high-school, college and into adulthood where they accumulated children, mortgages and jobs.
The revelation from this research is kids who were able to overcome their desire for short-term reward in favor of a better outcome later weren’t smarter than the other kids, nor were they less gluttonous. They just had a better grasp of how to trick themselves into doing what was best for them.”
It basically says thinking about thinking causes the subjects to have a better grasp of how to trick themselves into doing what was best for them. But what is it really and how is it done?
Not being able to deduce what it meant for the article frustrates me to no end. (Much like people calling the iPhone 4 an i4. hah! :D)
PS. I didn’t post the comment to the article because it’s flooded already.
Dear Sir, I hope your blog isn’t dead. Do you plan to post more in the future?
error on ‘sunk cost’
‘when you is lose cash’
should be
‘when you lose cash’
[extra 'is' by mistake]
Blargh. That sat there for three months.
Hi David,
Congratulations on your book being published. I’m so looking forward to receiving my autographed copy!
(-:
Jean
You know it is coming. I want to personally deliver it. Email me.
Hello,
I hope you don’t mind my suggestions.
I just finished reading one of your blog posts, and got to the end where you have a link for your book. I thought it might be useful to suggest to you that the image of your book could link to the page about your book, rather than the image of your book.
Additionally, if you moved the purchase links higher up on the page you may see conversion increase.
And finally, the ostrich on the front cover of your book looks like an AT-AT to me, which made perfect sense at the time. In hindsight, now I know it’s an ostrich, an AT-AT doesn’t make any sense.
That last one wasn’t a suggestion, more a caffeine fuelled observation of myself.
Regards,
Paul
I followed all of your advice.
Hi David :)
I’ve been following the blog for a while now, and ever since I discovered it, I’ve been wanting to show it to my friends and family. Unfortunately, only a couple of my friends can actually understand it, since English is not our first language. So I was wondering if I had your permission to translate your blog to Spanish. I would give credit to you, obviously, and of course, every article would contain a link to your blog.
Thanks in advance.
-Aquiles
Sorry, my contract with Penguin forbids it.
Mr. McRaney. The photograph you post with your responses to comments looks to me like a bearded man brandishing a handgun. Is that what it is? I’d like to know before communicating further.
Mr. McRaney. The photograph you post with your responses to comments looks to me like a bearded man brandishing a handgun. Is that what it is? I’d like to know before communicating further.
It’s a flare gun.
Hi David, Great blog. I just discovered it a couple of days ago and I can’t wait for the book. My only comment thus far (and you may have discussed it somewhere else but I didn’t lurk moar as the kiddies say) is are there any plans to change the format of the comments. You have one of the better comment sections of any of the blogs I follow but the long strings on the right hand side make me want to skip the comment. Then I feel bad later. It’s wreaking havoc with my self-esteem. Anyway congrats on the book and the posts are awesome.
I’ve played around with the commenting powers of this particular theme, and it’s either shrinky dinks or unconnected stacks. I decided to go with shrinky dinks because in the end they tend to make arguing difficult.
Hello!
Just thought i’d tell you that i’ve just aced a workplace presentation. 10 minutes, any topic, I decided to talk about procrastination and present bias and your article was very useful in giving me a good jumping off point for my research.
And, yes, I did only start the write-up the day before the presentation, despite having a two month lead in.
I am squinting and slowly nodding in approval.
David,
Why does the guy at the top of your web site look like that Earl guy from TV with a cheesy mustache and a pipe?
Just wondering,
–Guy
Dear Sir,
Your book isn’t available, even as a pre-order, in the UK Kindle store. I understand that Amazon don’t always make it obvious if you are publishing in the USA or worldwide, but I’d appreciate it if you could publish or pre-publish the book through amazon.co.uk as well as the .com.
Regards,
John.
David, I’m also interested in a Kindle or iBook version of your book – I hope it’s coming, that would be handy.
David,
I just read a couple of your articles for the first time and I very much enjoyed them! I have a casual interest in psychology (mostly from trying to work through my own shit) and couldn’t help but notice your references to concepts like individuation and the idealized self. I’m a big fan of Jung, so those particularly caught my eye. Do you have any preferred schools of psychology, or perhaps just some favorite psychologists? I’m very interested in reading some more.
Thanks,
Zack
Regarding your essay The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight:
The topic could not be more relevant as our population (USA) seems to be pulling apart at the seams over cultural/political differences.
My net result from this encapsulated enlightenment has been the shedding of much anger and hatred for the “other.” Whilst my politics and positions have not changed, my peace of mind as well as patience for different opinions has grown.
Thanks Dave!
-Mark I.
P.S. For months it had been bugging me on how seemingly intelligent people could be so stupid!!! Now it’s only bugging them…and they’re smarter than I thought.
P.P.S. You out-Malcom Mr. Gladwell! That’s a fat compliment.
Heard about this on SmodCo Morningshow, great site!
Hi,
I saw this on your page:
“Until November 5, if you send a picture of yourself with the book to notsosmartbook@gmail.com, I will send you a free, signed bookplate. Please include your address. If you have a Kindle version you would like signed, go to this link.”
The implication being your book is available on kindle. I can’t find a way to buy it for my kindle anywhere.
Given its either a) not for sale on the kindle store or b) I am retarded and can’t find it, could you post a link to it in the kindle store?
look forward to reading your book,
hugh
So, is there any hope at all?
or is that a delusion as well and we are all a stupid non-thinking species that frankly deserves to die in a pile of its own waste?
You take what is said too personally
The only real lesson here is that we as a human species are just as instinct driven and conditioned as any other species on Earth.
Its up to us what to do about it. De-individuation can make us into leaders. The Benjamin Franklin Effect can be used to Do unto others what we would have done unto us. And the Sunken Cost Fallacy only means that we value efficiency and recognition for our struggles.
We may not always be so smart, but if we are honest about it we can learn.
Are there e-mail alerts for this web site? Thanks for any information.
Just heard you on coast. Great insight to the human psyche! I wrote a book that helps you to break the hold of our delutional minds called Healthyism free at google.books and at http://www.healthyism.com.
David, listening to you on coast….very clear…Great insight to the human psyche! I wrote a book called Healthyism that helps to break the hold our delutional minds have over us found free at google.books and at http://www.healthyism.com. It’s very exciting, there are so many people becoming aware that they are not aware of their destructiveness and catapulting to higher, more constructive, levels of consciousness. Thx for all that you do~!
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I dont know who does the voice in the those video. Both the procrastination and the trailer, but it sound really nice! The visual is also very well done and catchy, I think this book, or maybe parts of it, could be translated to some kind of movie. Or well maybe more a documentary. As a more visual learner, I tend to be more attracted, and to remember and understand facts when they are shown that way. Anyway just a suggestion! Great work.
The voice is nice,the visuals well,I was just wandering if the stupid thing I am has some space for honesty and truth…Because,as smart as you can be,you’ll be never ever too smart!So,what’s the point?
Read one article and bought the book. Keep up the good work, thanks for providing a source of interesting learning about things I never new I was interested in learning about.
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Hi David,
im leaving a really important comment i hope it makes you fell good about your work you helped me alot.
The past few months of my life was all about finding myself and i wanted to fix myself just like Renato Russo once said in one of his most famaus shows “It does not help fixing others Fix yourlsef it helps alot”, im turning 15 next week and i dont think i could do that whitout reading your book, which i found from what i read in the topics some good answers thanks alot it was just what i was needing “answers” if you have anything to say before i get in depper in this world of madness or whatever i would be glad to read, enlighten me in other words.
Take Care
Lucas Russo
Started reading YANSS yesterday. I really like it so far, but I would like to point out one flawed assumption in the study conducted by Mark Snyder and Nancy Cantor (see page 30). Their study asked subjects to determine if a fictional character was an introvert or an extrovert, and based on that, if she would make a better librarian or a better real estate agent. As a librarian in a branch that serves 800-1,200 people a day I can guarantee you that the “librarian as introvert” stereotype is inaccurate. I interact with many people every day, read books & ebooks, love my smart phone, and I don’t wear my hair in a bun (though I do wear very cool glasses). Many of us do…visit a public library and see for yourself.
I read the first few chapters of the book, then felt kind of duped when the subject of evolution and the Texas sharpshooter fallacy came up. I will say that it’s pretty hard to argue against that on the surface because you would just say “everything is random” like a mantra….
I do believe that much human suffering (i.e. – social Darwinism, phrenology, Marxism, WWII, the Holocaust) has resulted from Darwin’s theory. Human suffering is the tangible, existing pain of billions now starving and who have suffered in the past. I believe the theory of evolution is important, but neither negates or disproves the existence of God nor should it guide the lives of people. The book seems to be saying life is meaningless and random, but somehow it all has the meaning of proving Darwin’s theory, which kind of negates the meaningless spiel. If the author of this book truly believed in meaningless-ness, then he would write the book in random blotches or something like the book Jack Nicholson wrote in “The Shining.”
To say that one’s life script is but lies and offer naught in consolation but the theory of evolution seems a dreary, cruel concept on which to pin your life’s fortune. Therefore, it proves my theory that belief in Darwin’s theory to that extent causes suffering because I have suffered from reading your book.
Goodnight.
Small error in book; p.94 Walter Freeman did not win Nobel Prize: Walter Freeman nominated his mentor António Egas Moniz for a Nobel prize and in 1949 Moniz won the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine.
What do you make of this video : http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhUli5Mc28lJJd5YRN
im sure you will have alot to say. By the way, great book man.
I can’t remember how I stumbled onto this site but I am glad I did. I’m getting zinged now and again as I read … “oh no, that’s me.” But it’s great food for thought and also gives me some google-able terminology that I never knew before.
Why do humans love to have some knowledge that the majority of the world does not?
Congrats on all the success of the book and the site – well done. I’ve long been looking for someone to take these principles and make them a little easier to understand. I recently bumped up against a TEDx talk called “You’re Not That Great: A Motivational Speech” that seems to have some of the same tone/vibe as your site. Hope you dig it.
come back sire, we need you
Yesterday I spilled teriyaki sauce all over my copy of You Are Not So Smart. That is all.