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Language can affect the way we think about things.

Language can affect the way we think about things. Politicians are aware of this, and do not hesitate to use strong, evocative terms in the hope to have the citizens adhere to their point of view.

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🤔 We never think we’re the ones who are going

🤔 We never think we’re the ones who are going to have Covid, get divorced… get our jobs replaced by AI.

👀 A bit of positivity never hurts, but being over-confident can prevent us from doing our research and taking precautions !

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🎤 A snippet of the insights from Olivier Sibony

🎤 A snippet of the insights from Olivier Sibony's conference on the decision-making biases around Covid.

👀 Looking back, we can say that our judgement (and the judgement of decision makers) was less than perfect during the pandemic.

☝️ However, one last bias remains: hindsight bias. It's easy to look back and criticize our past selves. What if the global pandemic never happened ? We probably would have said the first ones who sounded the alarm were overreacting / made crazy predictions.

🤔 The thing is, we can't know whether we're wrong until the event happens (or doesn't). What do you think ?

👆 How did cognitive biases impact the way we re

👆 How did cognitive biases impact the way we reacted to Covid ?

I summarized key facts from Olivier Sibony's conference, just for ya 😛

Which other biases do you think affected us during the pandemic ?

The most elegant use of the anchoring effect I hav

The most elegant use of the anchoring effect I have ever seen 😌

🚀 The famous saying "Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars" may have a scientific basis !

👉 In a review of goal-setting research, negotiation scholars Deborah Zetik and Alice Stuhlmacher of DePaul University found that when negotiators set specific, challenging goals, they consistently outperform those who set lower or vague goals.

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Source: Pon.harvard.edu, a real-life event

☢️ In a fictitious story from Parkinson, a com

☢️ In a fictitious story from Parkinson, a committee had to work on designing a nuclear power plant. They spent the majority of the time stuck with pointless issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bike shed...

⏰ This story illustrates Parkinson's law: the amount of time spent discussing and working on an issue is inversely proportional to its actual importance (especially in organizations).

❓ Why does bikeshedding occur ? Trivial tasks are easier to comprehend. When speak about complicated & important problems, we run the risk of saying something stupid and embarrassing ourselves. But we still want to feel and appear as if we're making a contribution, so we weigh in on the trivial stuff instead.

Bikeshedding - Decisionlab.com
The Appeal of Easy Problems aka Bike Shedding Medium.com
Bike sheds and ducks - Nuclino.com

Don't ask me why he still has the same phone after

Don't ask me why he still has the same phone after all those years 🤷‍♀️

We rely on defaults because of...
👉 effort: choosing the default option requires less calculation
👉 implied endorsement: we infer that if a default has been preselected, it must be considered advantageous
👉 reference dependance: setting one option as the default sets it as a reference, and other alternatives will be compared to that one in terms of gains/losses

This effect is powerful not only in psychology, but also in business and policy making.

One of the most impressive uses of the Default Effect is organ donation: a simple reframing (asking people to opt-out if they don't want to donate, instead of opting in to donate) increased the donation rate from a mere 10% to 90% !

Sources:
behavioraleconomics.com
Partitioning Default Effects: Why People Choose Not to Choose, Dinner et al, 2011

😎 "Haven't we met before?" is more than a well-

😎 "Haven't we met before?" is more than a well-rehearsed pickup line; it's the good-faith result of heuristic !

Researchers still can't agree on one theory, but here are a few possible explanations:

👀 Perceptual fluency
Beautiful faces are easier for the brain to process, and so are familiar faces. The brain may take a shortcut and confuses the two.

❓ Attribute substitution
When being asked "Do I know X?", if your brain doesn't have enough information available, it will subrepticely replace the question by a simpler one: "Do I like X?"

🤖 Prototypes
A prototype is easier to remember than a specific product. This holds true for faces: attractive, harmonious faces don't have any salient component that makes them memorable, so you think you've seen it before.

Which one is your favorite theory? 🤔

Source: Monin (2003), The Warm Glow Heuristic: When Liking Leads to Familiarity. Journal of personality and social psychology

It wasn't Moses, but Noah who carried all the anim

It wasn't Moses, but Noah who carried all the animals on his Ark!

❗ Though you know the difference between Moses and Noah, it was difficult for you to detect the error because both names refer to male biblical figures associated with miracles.

🐔 System 1 (the quick, instinctive mode of thinking) has trouble discerning between FAMILIARITY and TRUTH. For the same reason, "a chicken has 4 legs" seems less surprising than "a chicken with 3 legs", because most animals have 4 legs (familiar but obviously false).

💡 This quirk of the mind is due to "cognitive fluency": the more familiar the information is, the easier to process, so the more believable it is (even when it's false!).

💭 What do you think the implications are, in our everyday life?

Sources: thecut.com, thoughtco.com, Thinking Fast & Slow

⚠️ 1 million american politicians are forced t

⚠️ 1 million american politicians are forced to perform tricks in water parks !? ⚠️

Documentaries often seem like a "legit" and "serious" source... However, they're biased because:
(1) they're constructed around a narrative
(2) the goal of mass media is to attract the largest audience, not to educate you

Bad documentaries use appeal to emotion to catch people's attention - no matter if it means tweaking information and oversimplifying it.

Facts such as "by 2048 the ocean will be empty" (Seaspiracy) trigger strong emotional reactions, but those are gross exaggerations of a more complex reality.

❓ What silly narrative can you construct from the cartoon's games ?

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⚠️ Combined with confirmation bias and the ava

⚠️ Combined with confirmation bias and the availability error, subjective validity leads us to believe in the paranormal or pseudo-sciences!

🧙‍♂️ The "dude from the XVIth century" is inspired from Nostradamus, a french seer who supposedly predicted various major events such as 9/11, the French Revolution, Hitler... In reality, his statements are very vague and could apply to many different events. His believers are victims of the subjective validity effect !

🤓 What's the difference between subjective validity and the Barnum effect? With the Barnum effect, people agree with statements about themselves, even though it was a general statement applicable to anyone (1st + 2nd cartoons). Subjective validity is broader, it revolves not only around our own lives, but also the world around us (3rd cartoon).

Source: Subjective Validation by David Kyle Johnson

❓ Does this mean that we need to suspend any opi

❓ Does this mean that we need to suspend any opinion unless we're an expert? Not necessarily... otherwise we wouldn't be talking about much! A better approach is to:
- acknowledge that you're not a specialist
- accept that you have a limited view on almost every subject you can think about
Humility can lead to more productive debates.

🧪 In an experiment, people were asked to explain the implications of a policy they supported. When they realized knew less than they thought, they moderated their opinions! You can't take a firm stand on shaky grounds.

🤭 What is something people talk about too often, but know nothing about?

⚠️ Don't think I'm saying that practicing spor

⚠️ Don't think I'm saying that practicing sports is useless !! (see the anecdote below)

🏊🏼‍♂️ Nassim Taleb, the author who coined the term, succumbed to this illusion. He wanted to lose some weight and was attracted to the fashionable swimmer’s physique of being lean but well-built, inordinately tall with long limbs, broad shoulders, and a six-pack in tow. Then he realised that professional swimmers do not have perfect bodies because of their considerable training. Rather, they are biologically blessed to be good swimmers because of their physique.

👩‍🎓 The bias does not only apply to beauty and bodies, it is also relevant to the phenomenon of people who graduate from Harvard - do they become successful because of the quality of their education, or because the institution has a wide pool of candidates and can afford selecting the most promising individuals ?"

Source: Healthy Minds Psychology - Swimmer's Body Illusion

📊 Because our brains are easily overwhelmed, em

📊 Because our brains are easily overwhelmed, emotions begin to fade with two victims and collapse with a larger number of victims, that simply becomes a statistic.

🤕 Although this effect can be used for good (charities), it is not always beneficial. For example, after a YouTube video of an elderly bus driver being bullied went viral, a fundraising campaign was launched, and people donated more than $500k. It is a generous act, but he probably didn't need that much money...

⚠️ Meanwhile, breast cancer kills 40k women in the US - this money could have been used to help diagnosed patients, who receive 250 times less money than this single bus driver. Head > heart?

Sources:
The Decision Lab - Identifiable Victim Effect
The identifiable victim effect: a meta-analytic review (Lee & Feeley, 2016)

💡 Long-term memory is enhanced when learning ev

💡 Long-term memory is enhanced when learning events are spaced apart in time, rather than massed in immediate succession.

🕡 The spacing effect works at any timescale, whether it's a matter of seconds, days, years...

👪 Not only is it applicable to children, adults and Alzheimer's patients, but also animals : even a simple organism like Aplysia is receptive to this effect!

Source : Distributing Learning Over Time: The Spacing Effect in Children's Acquisition and Generalization of Science Concepts, Haley A. Vlach

Let's see how Brenda handles the situation💡

👉 "A recommendation from a healthcare provider is one of the strongest determinants of vaccine acceptance".
👉 When the person is willing to be vaccinated, showing confidence and being strong recommendations is optimal.
👉 But when the person's hesitant, the healthcare provider should show empathy, and engage in active listening. The conversation should ideally lead to vaccination, but it is equally important to build trust!

Check the link in bio to read the full report!

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💉🦠 Scenario 2 coming soon! A team of scien

💉🦠 Scenario 2 coming soon!

A team of scientists, researchers and volunteers at SciBeh published the Covid-19 vaccine communication handbook. It's aimed at anyone who wants to know more about the vaccines, how to talk to others about them, and how to challenge misinformation.

This illustration is inspired by one of the fictitious conversations between a physician and a patient reluctant to take the vaccine.

👉 check the link in my bio to read the full report!

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What's the common point between keeping your kid's

What's the common point between keeping your kid's very first pair of shoes, and buying a pair of Nike Air Jordan 1s, game-worn by Michael Jordan sold for $560,000? In both of those situations, essentialism is at play!

What objects do you hoard by pure essentialism?

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Be kind ❤️ A behavioral scientist says that i

Be kind ❤️

A behavioral scientist says that in order to maintain a healthy relationship, for every fight, you need 4 good actions to compensate 🤔

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It is the same skills and knowledge that are neces

It is the same skills and knowledge that are necessary to (1) be good at something (2) to realize we are not good at it.

This means that if a person does not have those abilities, they are not only incompetent, but also unaware of their own inability. Dunning and Kruger call this the “dual burden.”

Do you know what the opposite of the Dunning-Kruger effect is? 🤓

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