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Exploring Critical Thinking: A Deep Dive into 'You Are Not So Smart'

Exploring Critical Thinking: A Deep Dive into 'You Are Not So Smart'

In the episode discussed, the focus is on 'You Are Not So Smart,' a podcast about psychology, reasoning, and decision-making hosted by David McRaney. Timothy details the podcast's background, the host's interviewing style, guest interactions, and sound quality. He appreciates the critical thinking encouraged by the podcast and highlights various insightful clips

Stats

Website https://youarenotsosmart.com/

Host David McRany

Number of Episodes 297

Average length of episodes 60 minutes

First published 22 April 2012

Description You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self-delusion. In each episode, we explore what we've learned so far about reasoning, biases, judgments, and decision-making.

Category Science, Social Sciences, Management Education

Frequency Episodic about twice monthly

email davidmcraney@gmail.com

FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/youarenotsosmart

X https://x.com/notsmartblog

Podchaser https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/you-are-not-so-smart-52223

Listen Notes https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/you-are-not-so-smart-you-are-not-so-smart-R0bxgrDycUj/

Listen Notes Ranking top 0.1%

GoodPods https://goodpods.com/podcasts/you-are-not-so-smart-50442

GoodPods Ranking #4 in the top 100 Neuroscience all time, #17 in the top 100 Psychology all time, #3 in the top 100 Mind all time, #5 in the top 100 Brain all time, #30 in the top 100 Health all time

Episodes Reviewed

The Invisible Gorilla 

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2012/04/24/yanss-podcast-episode-one/ 

How Google uses behavioral science to make work suck less 

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2015/06/08/yanss-051-how-google-uses-behavioral-science-to-make-work-suck-less/ 

The Replication Crisis 

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2017/07/19/yanss-100-the-replication-crisis/ 

149 Expert advice on how health experts can better provide good health advice to combat bad health advice from non-experts https://youarenotsosmart.com/2019/03/11/yanss-149-expert-advice-on-how-health-experts-can-better-provide-good-health-advice-to-combat-bad-health-advice-from-non-experts/  

Math Without Numbers https://youarenotsosmart.com/2021/02/22/yanss-199-how-to-explore-the-mystery-and-wonder-of-complex-mathematical-concepts-without-using-numbers/  

 

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Transcript

Timothy:

You're listening to find a podcast about

 

 


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thank you for hitting play.

 

 


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I'm your host, Timothy Kimo, Brian, and I bring my experience with podcasting since

 

 


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2006 as a listener and a podcaster, I'm here to help you outsmart the algorithm

 

 


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and find your next binge worthy podcast.

 

 


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Here's how the show works.

 

 


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I'll go and comb the millions of podcasts currently available for free.

 

 


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On various platforms.

 

 


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And then I come back to you with what I found.

 

 


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Sure.

 

 


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You can use the search engines for recommendations from many podcast

 

 


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apps, but I feel that getting a recommendation from a real live

 

 


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breathing person is still the best way to find the gems that are out there.

 

 


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The show's broken up into three halves.

 

 


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I'm a huge fan of car talk.

 

 


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So bear with me on this.

 

 


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The first half.

 

 


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Is the stats of the show being reviewed.

 

 


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Now this gives you all the details about where to find the show, how

 

 


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many episodes who's hosting the show.

 

 


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Basically, this is for those who just want stats.

 

 


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The second half, I dig in deeper into the show and letting you know

 

 


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how the hosts interact, talk about their audio quality, and I'll let you

 

 


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know what I think the show is about.

 

 


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Now, the last half of the show is where I talk about why the show is binge worthy.

 

 


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Where to start your journey with the show being reviewed.

 

 


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And I'll be reaching out to hosts to see if they'd like to discuss their show

 

 


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and talk about their podcast journey.

 

 


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So let's get going.

 

 


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All right.

 

 


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So in this episode, I'm going to be discussing the, you

 

 


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are not so smart podcast.

 

 


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No, I'm not calling you stupid.

 

 


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Okay.

 

 


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And neither is this podcast, but once you start your binging journey

 

 


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with this podcast, you're going to discover what you think, you

 

 


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know, may not be based in reality.

 

 


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Now, I discovered this podcast early in my podcast journey and have been

 

 


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a faithful follower of it for years.

 

 


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When I saw the name of this podcast at first, I took it as a challenge

 

 


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and I was a little put off.

 

 


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Now I have a master's degree in theater pedagogy and I think of myself as a

 

 


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relatively well informed person, but once I heard the first episode, I felt

 

 


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this would be cool if school was set up this way, you know, and I would be

 

 


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much more intelligent than I am today.

 

 


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When I listened to the podcast, it reminds me of one time in

 

 


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school when a professor asked his students what they wanted to learn.

 

 


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And I replied, I want to know what I don't know.

 

 


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And I don't know what I don't know.

 

 


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Now that's quite a conundrum to be in for sure.

 

 


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And that professor probably didn't ask that question ever again,

 

 


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but how do you solve for that?

 

 


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You know, when you don't know what you don't know.

 

 


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Well, this podcast helps me answer that question with each and every episode.

 

 


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It also reminds me of, of a philosophy class that I took in college.

 

 


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At the start of my academic journey, the professor I had in that class really got

 

 


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us thinking critically about thinking and allowed our group's final project

 

 


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to prove that our rooms thermostat had consciousness and free will.

 

 


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I think the academic world would benefit from taking a listen to this podcast and

 

 


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instill a mindset of critical thinking versus just accepting what one person

 

 


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is teaching, no matter the subject.

 

 


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So let's go ahead and get to the stats.

 

 


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The host is David McRaney and at the time of this recording it has 291 episodes.

 

 


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Some of them are rebroadcast so that affects the numbers a bit.

 

 


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The average length is about 60 minutes and the first episode

 

 


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dropped on April 22nd of 2012.

 

 


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It's been going on for quite some time.

 

 


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The description is as followed.

 

 


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You are not so smart is a show about psychology that celebrates

 

 


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science and self delusion.

 

 


Timothy:

In each episode, we explore what we've learned so far about.

 

 


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reasoning, biases, judgment, and decision making.

 

 


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The genre of this podcast is science, social science, management,

 

 


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and education, and the frequency lately has been twice a month.

 

 


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Now, there is a Facebook and Twitter or X community tied to the podcast.

 

 


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Listen Notes rates this podcast in the top 0.

 

 


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1 percent of podcasts listened to on their site.

 

 


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And Good Pods rates this podcast as number four in top 100.

 

 


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Neuroscience all time number 17 in the top 100 psychology of all time number

 

 


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three in the top 100 Mind all time, number five in the top 100 brain all time,

 

 


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number 30 in the top 100 health all time.

 

 


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Now keep in mind this reporting comes from these sites and from people listening to

 

 


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this podcast from those respective sites.

 

 


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Reviews of the podcast from Apple Podcasts show many five star ratings.

 

 


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However, there are one and two star ratings from people who really have issues

 

 


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with the show's politics and approach.

 

 


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For me, I gave the show a five star rating in Good Pods.

 

 


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So, when you're on GoodPods, check that out.

 

 


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Are

 

 


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you happy with your podcast app?

 

 


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I know, that's a hard question to answer.

 

 


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Let me ask you this.

 

 


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Does your app allow you to rate the podcast you are listening to?

 

 


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Hey, great if it does.

 

 


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But does it allow you to rate every episode that you listen to?

 

 


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Most of them don't.

 

 


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Does your app allow you to join a community of other listeners and share

 

 


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and comment on your favorite podcasts?

 

 


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Now, if you're a podcaster, does the app that your listeners are using

 

 


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give you a tip jar where they can support your show directly instead

 

 


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of paying fees to somebody else?

 

 


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Well, GoodPods allows you as a listener and as a podcaster to rate and

 

 


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review all the episodes of a podcast, as well as joining a community of

 

 


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other podcast enthusiasts to discuss that thing we all love, podcasts.

 

 


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Give it a shot.

 

 


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You may not go back to your old app and you might find a community

 

 


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that is engaged and excited about the same things that you are.

 

 


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Grab it on Google Play and the Apple App Store.

 

 


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I'm going to start off this section a bit differently than I have in past episodes.

 

 


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Yes, of course, I'm going to start off with sound quality, but I do need to

 

 


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let you know that there is a difference in the quality of the host and the

 

 


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guest, and it's almost night and day.

 

 


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Now, keep in mind that this podcast started in 2012 when we didn't have

 

 


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many good options for remote recording.

 

 


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Many of the guests sound as if they were on a phone calling into the interview.

 

 


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So, In later episodes, the sound quality of the guests gets better as now we have

 

 


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better choices for remote interviews.

 

 


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Now, as a podcaster, it's a bit distracting for me to hear the

 

 


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difference the first few minutes, but then I get swept away with the

 

 


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quality of the questions and how Mr.

 

 


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McGraney.

 

 


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Leaves enough space for the guests to fully answer the questions

 

 


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and provide some needed insight.

 

 


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Now this affects my listening to the podcast.

 

 


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It may not affect your listening to it, but I come into this

 

 


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podcast with podcasters ears.

 

 


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So for you, again, may not be an issue, but you do need to know going

 

 


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into this podcast that there is a sound issue and going back to all

 

 


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those previous interviews and fixing the issue would be a monumental task.

 

 


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And that task would only be beneficial to a very few people.

 

 


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small subset of listeners.

 

 


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So really I don't think he should go back and fix it as it really doesn't affect the

 

 


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meat of the interview for most listeners.

 

 


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Now another issue that I have is it takes a bit to get used to

 

 


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how he introduces his episodes.

 

 


Timothy:

Sometimes it's right there for you and at other times it takes you a while to

 

 


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understand what you're going to get.

 

 


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I recommend patience when dealing with this as a listener because

 

 


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the episodes do pay off in the end.

 

 


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There's nothing for a new listener to get a hint of what they're getting into.

 

 


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So that's a bit of a knock that I think could be better.

 

 


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However, when he does get to what the show is about, David makes it worth your while.

 

 


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In this clip from the first episode, it comes in at a little over four minutes.

 

 


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But it's well

 

 


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worth the wait.

 

 


David:

In this episode, we were exploring attention and we're going to talk to

 

 


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an expert on that topic, Daniel Simons, a professor and psychologist in the

 

 


David:

department of psychology and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and

 

 


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Technology at the University of Illinois.

 

 


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His research explores the limits of your mind and also why

 

 


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you're unaware of those limits.

 

 


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He also teaches classes in visual cognition and

 

 


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introductory psychology there.

 

 


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And of course he is the coauthor with Christopher Shabrie

 

 


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of the invisible gorilla.

 

 


David:

Which is a really great book about other ways that we miss what's going

 

 


David:

on around us and make false assumptions about the world, similar to how we do

 

 


David:

in the invisible gorilla experiment.

 

 


Timothy:

Now that's a really good introduction to the episode.

 

 


Timothy:

But like I said, it happens at a little over four minutes.

 

 


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Now conversely, in the 199th episode, he introduces the topic from the

 

 


David:

very start.

 

 


David:

This is one of those episodes that's just a conversation without any goals in mind.

 

 


David:

And it really doesn't.

 

 


David:

We just kind of go everywhere.

 

 


David:

It goes off the rails quite a bit.

 

 


David:

But that's because the conversation is with a mathematician and

 

 


David:

I rarely get a chance to talk to someone in that discipline.

 

 


David:

The mathematician is Milo Beckman, who wrote a book titled Math Without Numbers.

 

 


David:

This is a fun, weird, quirky new book with lots of pictures in it

 

 


David:

that really does explain everything from extra dimensions to multiple

 

 


David:

infinities to advanced topologies.

 

 


David:

And other very high minded mathematical concepts without using any numbers at all.

 

 


David:

It's just about the ideas and the implication of those ideas.

 

 


David:

And that seemed like something I would love to talk about.

 

 


David:

Now, if

 

 


Timothy:

this was your first episode, You may have tuned out right away,

 

 


Timothy:

but you would miss out on a great topic of mathematics because he

 

 


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kind of lets you know ahead of time that it's going to go in a bunch

 

 


Timothy:

of different and weird directions.

 

 


Timothy:

And you may be thinking, eh, do I really want to listen to that?

 

 


Timothy:

But trust me, when he gets to the topic, the payoff is well worth

 

 


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the time it takes to get there.

 

 


Timothy:

It's like a great joke.

 

 


Timothy:

It may take a long time to get to that joke, but once the punchline

 

 


Timothy:

hits, which is the topic, you know, of the podcast, you're going to

 

 


Timothy:

have a great experience with it.

 

 


Timothy:

So we know that the guest audio is not always the best and doesn't match

 

 


Timothy:

the quality of David's, but how he introduces his guest and doesn't

 

 


Timothy:

do a double intro is masterful.

 

 


Timothy:

In this next clip, he's introducing the guest and giving a detailed

 

 


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background of the guest so you know why they are on the show and how their

 

 


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thoughts relate to the topic at hand.

 

 


David:

Our guest in this episode is Lazlo Bock, the Senior Vice President

 

 


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of People Operations for Google Incorporated, basically the head of

 

 


David:

their massive, never been done before HR department that goes about trying to

 

 


David:

figure out the best way to get people, to keep people, to make people better,

 

 


David:

to get people to be happy and effective and just create this strange world.

 

 


David:

Thanks And often wonderful place known as Google, which is known as being

 

 


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among most people and most categories and most places that rank this kind

 

 


David:

of thing is the best company to work for in most of the countries in which

 

 


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they have offices and they have 50, 000 employees in 70 offices worldwide.

 

 


David:

So this HR department is massive and huge and interesting and cool.

 

 


David:

It's written a new book called work rules, which is all about how they've

 

 


David:

gone about Making the decisions they've made, how they arrived at

 

 


David:

them, all the research they did and what you can do like what they did.

 

 


David:

Laszlo has testified before Congress on immigration reform.

 

 


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He's worked for General Electric and McKinsey and company, and he's just done

 

 


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a lot of really interesting, cool stuff.

 

 


David:

And now that he's at Google, he's trying to apply the science of psychology

 

 


David:

and neuroscience and sociology and all the behavioral and social things

 

 


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that we've learned over the years.

 

 


David:

In a big work environment to see what does and does not stick, what

 

 


David:

should, it should not be done.

 

 


David:

And you're going to hear all about that in this interview.

 

 


David:

Let's pick his.

 

 


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When hearing this intro, you know why the guest is appearing on the

 

 


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show and what value they're going to be providing for the topic of this episode.

 

 


Timothy:

It helps you decide if this episode is for you or not.

 

 


Timothy:

And that is something I feel most podcasters should do for their listeners.

 

 


Timothy:

Save them the time and they will appreciate you and come back.

 

 


Timothy:

Not every episode is for every listener and that's okay, but give us listeners

 

 


Timothy:

a chance to make up our own minds.

 

 


Timothy:

David does that just not in the usual places that you would normally think.

 

 


Timothy:

Now, let's stay with the guests, not their sound quality, but let's, you know,

 

 


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talk about the guests and how David asks really open ended questions that allows

 

 


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the guests to expand and share their knowledge of the topic of the episode.

 

 


Timothy:

Now, in this next clip, the question does not sound open ended at first, but the

 

 


Timothy:

explanation the guest gives shows that it was a great question to ask and lets

 

 


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the guest provide value to the episode.

 

 


Timothy:

To the overall episode and the show itself was

 

 


David:

math discovered or invented.

 

 


David:

It's a great question.

 

 


David:

I mean, my answer to that is I say discovered, but I think you have to break

 

 


David:

it down because math is a huge, huge overarching branching category of things.

 

 


David:

And I think like, first of all, when we're talking about math, people are generally

 

 


David:

talking about very different things.

 

 


David:

I sort of wish we had more precise language for it.

 

 


David:

Cause I think most people, they think of math and they're thinking of like

 

 


David:

specific sort of tools and techniques.

 

 


David:

So maybe like, you know, long division was invented, right?

 

 


David:

Or, you know, the specific ways of like writing down numerals

 

 


David:

and cross multiplying and stuff.

 

 


David:

That stuff was invented.

 

 


David:

But I think the underlying concepts of like this concept of number, this

 

 


David:

concept of quantity, these ideas of dimensions and, and infinity and shapes

 

 


David:

and structures and stuff, that stuff I think is pretty much discovered.

 

 


David:

And the best evidence I have for that is that many different independent

 

 


David:

cultures have sort of discovered more or less the same math and everyone kind

 

 


David:

of has a different language for it.

 

 


Timothy:

Now, initially, this sounds like an either or question.

 

 


Timothy:

However, as you can hear, it's not a simple answer because it depends on

 

 


Timothy:

several factors, and the answer to the question of math being invented

 

 


Timothy:

or discovered is actually both the guest is given space in this instance

 

 


Timothy:

to fully answer the question and not just give a quick sound bite.

 

 


Timothy:

All right, let's talk about how the show makes me feel.

 

 


Timothy:

So the title, as we've discussed initially, challenged me.

 

 


Timothy:

But after listening to numerous episodes, I feel educated after each

 

 


Timothy:

episode and challenged to do the research myself on the topics presented

 

 


Timothy:

and really rethink my positions.

 

 


Timothy:

Now, sometimes they're confirmed.

 

 


Timothy:

Sometimes I learn new things that I didn't get in decades of schooling.

 

 


Timothy:

I know I can be a little bit of a nerd when I research something, even obsessive,

 

 


Timothy:

and I'm familiar with medical journals and have even read on a few topics that

 

 


Timothy:

interest me for research topics in school.

 

 


Timothy:

However, I've never heard of publication bias until I heard

 

 


David:

this clip.

 

 


David:

Publication bias is usually the result of scientists doing research

 

 


David:

but not finding anything significant.

 

 


David:

Because there's nothing to show, they don't try to publish

 

 


David:

that research in a journal.

 

 


David:

So the journals are only showing things that worked out.

 

 


David:

All the stuff that didn't work out gets put into the file drawer.

 

 


David:

Thus, it is called the file drawer effect.

 

 


David:

The problem is, you end up with this imbalance.

 

 


David:

One idea, one model, might be made up of all these studies that show effects,

 

 


David:

when there are lots and lots of studies that didn't show anything significant.

 

 


Timothy:

Now knowing this is an actual thing, it totally makes sense that

 

 


Timothy:

researchers would only report on when their study proved their hypothesis.

 

 


Timothy:

Or hypothesis.

 

 


Timothy:

And never in my many years of schooling, did I hear about this topic.

 

 


Timothy:

It's earth shattering that this happens and is allowed to happen under the guise

 

 


Timothy:

of scientific discovery and research.

 

 


Timothy:

Now, does that shake my confidence in the scientific community?

 

 


Timothy:

Not really, but it does make me pause when I hear something

 

 


Timothy:

coming from a medical journal.

 

 


Timothy:

The goal is not to trash science or research.

 

 


Timothy:

It's to get you to think critically about what's being presented to you.

 

 


Timothy:

For me, when a podcast can make me rethink what I feel is true,

 

 


Timothy:

that podcast is bingeable.

 

 


Timothy:

If you've liked what you heard so far, then I'd like to ask

 

 


Timothy:

you to go ahead and reach out.

 

 


Timothy:

You can email me directly Timothy at find a podcast about dot X, Y, Z, or

 

 


Timothy:

leave me a voicemail at the website.

 

 


Timothy:

Find a podcast about dot X, Y, Z.

 

 


Timothy:

I want to help you find your next binge worthy podcast.

 

 


Timothy:

And if you want me to find you a podcast in any category that

 

 


Timothy:

you're interested in, let me know.

 

 


Timothy:

Now, if you're a podcaster and feel that your podcast would be served by appearing

 

 


Timothy:

on this show, I want to talk to you to use the same methods of reaching out.

 

 


Timothy:

I'm on Twitter at find a podcast, Instagram and Facebook at find

 

 


Timothy:

a podcast about podcasting.

 

 


Timothy:

Another thing I'd like to ask you is if you found value in this

 

 


Timothy:

podcast, pass it along to a friend.

 

 


Timothy:

Lastly, doing this podcast is a labor of love, but love ain't cheap.

 

 


Timothy:

So consider to my buy me a coffee fund right there on the

 

 


Timothy:

website or go to buymeacoffee.

 

 


Timothy:

com slash find a podcast about each episode takes about five to seven

 

 


Timothy:

hours of research and about two to three hours of production time.

 

 


Timothy:

That's 10 hours for each episode.

 

 


Timothy:

And let me tell you, that's a lot of coffee.

 

 


Timothy:

Like I said earlier, the best recommendations come from a real person.

 

 


Timothy:

So help me to help you outsmart the algorithm.

 

 


Timothy:

All right.

 

 


Timothy:

Here's where I turn you from a listener of find a podcast about to a

 

 


Timothy:

binger of you are not so smart again.

 

 


Timothy:

Don't let the title scare you off.

 

 


Timothy:

David is not saying that you're stupid and he's trying to be better than you.

 

 


Timothy:

He is just presenting ideas and topics that you thought you knew

 

 


Timothy:

the answers to and helping you think critically about those topics.

 

 


Timothy:

He comes to these topics with an open mind and a critical eye and

 

 


Timothy:

provides a lot of himself and his experiences in each episode.

 

 


Timothy:

Take a listen to this clip on how Google is attempting to make

 

 


Timothy:

work suck less for its employees.

 

 


David:

I don't know about you, but I grew up in a culture that

 

 


David:

saw work as a necessary sin.

 

 


David:

Most of my family, they worked part time.

 

 


David:

blue collar jobs and therefore they had no problem with work life balance.

 

 


David:

You got off work and you did not think about it until the next morning.

 

 


David:

And on Sundays you dreaded the idea of Monday.

 

 


David:

You drew the very, the very concept of what Monday meant in the work ahead

 

 


David:

of you and the week ahead of you.

 

 


David:

And I spent time in that world myself.

 

 


David:

My first jobs were all construction jobs because my dad was an electrical engineer.

 

 


David:

And so I worked on his crews and we dug ditches and pulled cable.

 

 


David:

And we basically, we died in the sun every day.

 

 


Timothy:

Now, David is bringing his background as a laborer to show

 

 


Timothy:

that he is not somebody in a white academic tower spewing forth book

 

 


Timothy:

knowledge with no real life knowledge.

 

 


Timothy:

It's because he puts so much of himself in each episode that I listen.

 

 


Timothy:

I feel like.

 

 


Timothy:

He is me with my blue collar background.

 

 


Timothy:

He is somebody I feel I can trust because we have similar experiences in life.

 

 


Timothy:

And isn't that why we listened to many of the podcasts that we listened to?

 

 


Timothy:

Another thing that I like is he anticipates the response he gets.

 

 


Timothy:

For some of his more controversial topics, listen to this disclaimer

 

 


Timothy:

that he had about combating health advice from non experts.

 

 


David:

Now, to be clear, neither I nor Paul Offit think that anti

 

 


David:

vaxxers are stupid or that their emotions aren't understandable.

 

 


David:

Many people in that community are suffering and they want

 

 


David:

answers to why their children have been diagnosed with autism.

 

 


David:

Others are just concerned about their family members and loved ones or

 

 


David:

their parents who want the best for their new families, but in the media

 

 


David:

on television, especially Paul Offit vaccine expert has been telling people

 

 


David:

for years what science and medicine has to say about vaccines and how to

 

 


David:

navigate the complexities of vaccination.

 

 


David:

While non expert celebrities have been given equal time to counter

 

 


David:

argue the things he says, and in his estimation, That causes harm.

 

 


Timothy:

I feel he approaches these people with an open heart and the

 

 


Timothy:

idea that they mean well, but they are causing issues that literally have life

 

 


Timothy:

and death circumstances in some cases.

 

 


Timothy:

Now, this episode that this clip was taken from occurred right before the pandemic of

 

 


Timothy:

2020, and we saw a lot of backlash against the medical community about vaccines.

 

 


Timothy:

I don't know if David has a crystal ball, but this episode was definitely timely.

 

 


Timothy:

Now, the last clip I want to share with you is a stroke of genius that we should

 

 


Timothy:

all put into our playbooks as podcasters.

 

 


Timothy:

Listen to this clip and learn how he solicits listener interaction.

 

 


David:

Okay.

 

 


David:

It's time for cookers.

 

 


David:

Each episode of the, you are not so smart podcast will end with me, David McCraney.

 

 


David:

reading you some psychology slash self delusion news.

 

 


David:

And while I do that, I will eat a cookie, which is baked from a recipe that is

 

 


David:

sent in from a reader slash listener.

 

 


David:

And if I pick your recipe and I make the cookie and I eat it, I

 

 


David:

will also send you a signed copy of the, you are not so smart book.

 

 


Timothy:

I mean, I want to send them a cookie recipe right now and have them eat

 

 


Timothy:

it while reading a study on psychology.

 

 


Timothy:

The idea is genius and tasty.

 

 


Timothy:

Just think about it for a minute.

 

 


Timothy:

You send in a recipe and have him try it out while he's on his show.

 

 


Timothy:

Everybody likes to be recognized and called out.

 

 


Timothy:

And David sounds like he's having a great time doing this.

 

 


Timothy:

I really enjoy listening to people who are enjoy what they're doing.

 

 


Timothy:

If for no other reason, listen to the end of each of these episodes

 

 


Timothy:

and you're going to have well over.

 

 


Timothy:

So where do you start your journey with You Are Not So Smart?

 

 


Timothy:

You could go to GoodPods and look up the most popular episodes.

 

 


Timothy:

Most of those recommendations start after episode 200, and I focused on

 

 


Timothy:

episodes before 200, and really enjoyed the 5 episodes that I took clips from.

 

 


Timothy:

So, that might be a good place to start as well.

 

 


Timothy:

Go through the episode titles, and if there's something that you want

 

 


Timothy:

to learn more about, Use that method.

 

 


Timothy:

He's great with episode titles, so you know what you're getting into.

 

 


Timothy:

Let me know what some of your favorite episodes are, and you can thank me by

 

 


Timothy:

leaving me a voicemail at my website, find a podcast about dot X, Y, Z,

 

 


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or you can send me an email, Timothy at find a podcast about dot X, Y, Z.

 

 


Timothy:

So that's the episode.

 

 


Timothy:

I want to thank you again for taking a listen.

 

 


Timothy:

And if you want to outsmart the algorithm and have me review a podcast, Email

 

 


Timothy:

me Timothy at find a podcast about dot X, Y, Z, or go to the website.

 

 


Timothy:

Find a podcast about dot X, Y, Z, where you can listen to all the other

 

 


Timothy:

episodes and leave me a voicemail.

 

 


Timothy:

I'm here to help you find your next binge worthy podcast.

 

 


Timothy:

And just let you know, I run another podcast called create art podcast, where

 

 


Timothy:

I help my listeners tame their inner critic and create more than they consume.

 

 


Timothy:

You can find it at createartpodcast.

 

 


Timothy:

com.

 

 


Timothy:

If you have that inner twitch of becoming a creator or artist and don't know where

 

 


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Head on over to Korean art podcast.

 

 


Timothy:

Let me help you create something for somebody you love yourself.

 

 


Timothy:

Thank you for listening.

 

 


Timothy:

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