You Are Not So Smart
YANSS 333 - Selective Perception - Jay Van Bavel
February 16, 202638 min · 6,782 words
Show notes
How can two people watch the same video yet see two different things? How can two people witness the same event but arrive at two different truths about what they witnessed? How can the same evidence lead people to drastically different realities? In this episode, Dr. Jay Van Bavel at NYU explains. Kitted Executive Academy The Power of Us Website They Saw A Game Jay Van Bavel’s Twitter Jay Van Bavel’s Website How Minds Change David McRaney’s Twitter David McRaney’s BlueSky YANSS Twitter Newsletter Patreon
Highlighted moments
we don't passively receive reality. We actively construct it.
“Princeton students thought Dartmouth committed about 10 fouls in the game, and Dartmouth students only thought the Dartmouth team committed about four fouls in the game.”
“if you're strongly identified with the police, you look at different parts of the video than if you don't identify with the police. And then this shapes what you see.”
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