HBH 21: Our Distorted Reality

<p>Today I begin a pedantic journey into the tragicomic ways our perceptions and judgments are altered and distorted by our own cognitive processes -- goofy, heartbreaking, and humorous all at once, </p> <p>Index of topics included:</p> <p>0:00    Intro</p> <p>04:52   Anchoring Bias</p> <p>08:59   Availability Heuristic</p> <p>13:25   Backfire Effect</p> <p>16:05   Barnum Effect</p> <p>19:45   Belief Bias</p> <p>23:06   Bystander Effect</p> <p>27:22  Confirmation Bias and Belief Perseverance </p> <p>              Including Wm. Flinders-Petrie vs the Pyramidologists</p> <p>33:56   Curse of Knowledge</p> <p>35:10   Declinism aka Old Fartism </p> <p>36:49   Framing Effects</p> <p>40:06   Fundamental Attribution Error (Salience of the Actor)</p> <p>           Empty Boats</p> <p> </p> <p>I will finish the topic in a few weeks, but in order to not bore you to death with this laundry list, I will interject a few historical vignettes between now and then.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>