In A Ted Talk Analysis

It’s so easy to create a professional website these days, one that looks trustworthy and reliable. Of course, that does not mean that the information contained within it is also reliable. You would think that would be obvious, we would all like to think that we’ve impervious to bullshit. Alas, that is not the case. We get tricked, mislead, and manipulated, and very often we’re totally unaware of it.
We talked briefly about the fluency illusion in chapter 13, we are susceptible to judging something as truthful if we find it easy to process. Intuition can take us down the wrong path just as easily as it can the right one, and our only recourse is to slow down and start the effortful process of thinking. This makes well-designed websites with
What she and her colleagues found was that people are less likely to take revenge when they’re treated unfairly if their tryptophan levels are high.18 Following this research, articles started to come claiming that cheese and chocolate can make us better decision makers. Why? Because tryptophan is found in reasonable doses in cheese and chocolate. That’s not a lie, it’s not entirely bullshit, but as Crockett notes, it is oversimplified. Not long after this she had marketers calling her up asking her to provide scientific endorsements of their
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but if it was not based on any type of critical thinking or consideration of evidence for and against, then it is a weak and poor opinion that needs to be removed from any situation in which it might influence someone else. As a learner, whether you are self-directed or making your way through a school system, critical thinking is a must. You don’t have to believe everything that comes from the mouth of some authority figure, in the same way you should be weary of what you find in an interesting article or on the back of a sports drink. If you want to get to the truth, you must put in the effort, you must be critical, analytical, in some cases