CCATP #766 — Dr. Maryanne Garry on Influencing Delusions About Highly Complex Skills

<p>This week our guest is your favorite psychological scientist, Dr. Maryanne Garry of the University of Waikato in New Zealand and <a href="https://www.garrylab.com/" target="%5Fblank" rel="noopener">garrylab.com</a></p> <p>Dr. Garry and four of her colleagues <a href ="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211977" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a paper recently in the Royal Society Open Science called "Trivially informative semantic context inflates people's confidence they can perform a highly complex skill"</a>.</p> <p>The experiments built on previous studies which demonstrated that people have highly inflated beliefs of their capabilities doing highly complex tasks for which they are entirely unqualified. In particular, a high percentage of people have high confidence that they could land a commercial plane with no help from the tower. In this study, they tested whether watching a short, trivially informative video of two pilots landing a plane would influence that confidence level.</p> <p>As always with Dr. Garry, you'll learn a lot, you'll laugh along with us, and your dreams will be crushed as only she can.</p> <p>If you want to listen to more interviews with Dr. Garry, check out these episodes of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite:</p> <p>* <a href ="https://www.podfeet.com/blog/?p=25969" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CCATP #727 – Dr. Maryanne Garry on How Everything You Remember is Wrong</a></p> <p>* <a href ="https://www.podfeet.com/blog/?p=20560" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CCATP #629 - Dr. Garry on Study of Language Skills vs Numeracy In Learning to Program</a></p> <p>* <a href ="https://www.podfeet.com/blog/?p=17094" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CCATP #576 - Dr. Maryanne Garry on Grammar Pet Peeves</a></p> <p>* <a href ="https://www.podfeet.com/blog/?p=15657" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CCATP #554 - Dr. Maryanne Garry on Persuasion with Facts and Data</a></p> <p>* <a href ="https://www.podfeet.com/blog/?p=13503" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CCATP #5