Steven Pinker explains the cognitive biases we all suffer from and how they can short-circuit rational thinking and lead us into believing stupid things. Skip to 12:15 to bypass the preamble.
Steven Pinker explains the cognitive biases we all suffer from and how they can short-circuit rational thinking and lead us into believing stupid things. Skip to 12:15 to bypass the preamble.
Is it because they’re not really smart and they try to learn things from youtube rather than reading?
What if I read the transcript in book form?
You’re attacking the medium rather than the content. You can learn things from video just as you can a lecture.
Books aren’t special. And they can be very wrong too.
So…
You think people walk into lectures completely unprepared, listen for 25 minute, and walk out and they magically have learned stuff?
Maybe you’re just still in highschool, or never took a serious class in college.
How it works is:
Do the reading.
Attend the lecture while taking notes.
Review the notes
Then later, after doing this with different topics, reviewing the same information again.
There’s a lot bigger barrier of entry, compared to uploading a video to fucking YouTube.
You know what’s crazier? There’s still a shit ton more reasons, but I already know that even if you have managed to read this far, you can’t remember the 1-4 steps without looking back up.
Reading let’s you do that, quickly scan the text for what you want and referring to it.
Yeah, I hope you’re not expecting a response with a tone like that. Bye
lose the shitty disrespectful attitude or you will be banned in the future.
Not a bad guess. The moving picture medium has been around for a while though and complements the written word, rather than supplant it, as a tool for learning.
You want to learn how to get a garbage disposal unstuck?
Watch a YouTube video.
You want to learn to learn about psychological concepts in 25 minutes by watching a video?
Cool, it won’t ever work but I respect your wishes.
But no smart person would believe just watching a quick video is actually learning anything more advanced then: there’s a place for an Allen key under the disposal
It’s an interview with an eminent scientist discussing some key ideas. No, you won’t walk away with a comprehensive knowledge of the entire field, the format isn’t designed for that.
So documentaries are garbage as well then? Anything using video as a medium? Do you attend lectures in person or do wait for the transcript?
Hold still and I’ll go make a YouTube video for you.
I don’t know why I thought you were going to get anything out of the written word.
Just wait right there and I’ll scream some buzzwords into a microphone for you, and tell you that you’re smarter than everyone. Because you may be able to remember some of those buzzwords, but not what they actually mean.
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