This Is Why People Love Conspiracy Theories

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@Boajhdk Ай бұрын

I saw the boat too! But only the boat

@luisv007 Ай бұрын

Number 3 … yeyyyy 🎉

@Cerbera66 Ай бұрын

I saw this as tent 😊

@DennisHolmberg-sl1hz Ай бұрын

It is not made up or a CT if you salted the random images. A better test is that someone might have association with or travel in similar circles that that alone might explain contradictory situations or observations. Imagination might be more at issue.

@andhewonders Ай бұрын

It's an IQ test.

@jannetteberends8730 Ай бұрын

Professional tilers will tell you that random placed tiles always look like a pattern. So when you want something to look random you need too design it. I know this from an article about scientific research about this phenomenon However, entertaining video

@timwhite7127 Ай бұрын

Same reason if you stare long enough most clouds begin to resemble things...

@entropyachieved750 Ай бұрын

Lack of knowledge in a particular area without verifying or applying logic because of your preconceived assumptions.

@nettlelee7033 Ай бұрын

But the boat was placed there intentionally. So it is not random. Seriously confusing

@OilCanHarry2U Ай бұрын

I saw a Snow Leopard in each and every one of the pictures…that is a snow leopard driving a Tesla truck driving through a Red Rooster drive-thru.

@Cerbera66 Ай бұрын

The argument about the more creative imagination of some people is valid in my opinion. There are tests that show, for example, that children see figures in clouds very quickly. The issue of conspiracy theories and the consequences for our democracies is unfortunately a serious one, but it cannot be identified with such a test.

@Cerbera66 Ай бұрын

PS But an interesting and entertaining video 😊

@PP-vv6zn Ай бұрын

I see an ocean horizon (1), nothing in (2), a yacht in (3) and a wombat's head and shoulders in (4) - but no conspiracies here. Unless you count the moon landings.. (JOKING)

@user-fed-yum Ай бұрын

If you believe in god, or are religious in any way whatsoever, you can be made to believe anything.

@yahwea Ай бұрын

All one needs is lacking in critical thought, and Propaganda

@DesertVox Ай бұрын

Explain to me how earth happens to have a thin breathable layer surrounding it, and that humans and countless other life forms are able to thrive and breathe and process and extract this oxygen from this air, and eat the food that grow within this tiny layer of the earth and its atmosphere, and process and digest this food and extract energy and convert it so that the muscles and brain can use this to make a complex human body function and think and have ideas and thoughts and build and design things? How can all of this be random without a Wilful Designer?

@ashcoops6962 Ай бұрын

Yeah - I mean, some people believe it all came from nothing at all. Imagine that!

@AP-yx1mm Ай бұрын

Some researchers found out that this things overlap at times...

@MrWombatty Ай бұрын

Not really true! Atheists have a strong belief that there is no god, therefore atheists have a strong unwavering belief-system that can & does lead to denying what others in the mainstream often believe in. That's why many atheists believe in a flat-earth & deny the moon landings!

@grandmothergoose Ай бұрын

In the first test I saw nothing but the square with the sailboat I could see lines that made me think, "I can see how other people would think that is a picture of a sailboat". In the second test before she chose any I chose A and K and didn't care if the result was to prove the rule true or false, I just wanted to know the actual result. I fully believe that most conspiracy theory beliefs come from a place of fear - fear for one's health, fear for one's economic stability, fear of change, and I pity those that live with such fears, it must be a terrible world they think they're living in.

@jonathanm9436 Ай бұрын

Fascinating. The instinct to make sense of the environment by, in part, seeing familiar things (which we know how to manage the threat) particularly when stressed is a natural reaction. But using conspiracy theories to derive that sense, instead of reason and evidence, is a product of degrees of ignorance.

@juliecook6057 Ай бұрын

😂 The opening sentence alone COMPLETELY encapsulates ALL those featured and in general @5.30ish !!! 😂🤣

@cefgaray3 Ай бұрын

People believe whatever they can. The main point is don’t take a life or hurt someone unless it’s self defense.

@MSjackiesaunders Ай бұрын

#2 has a fishhook to the left of center. But my degree is in behavior psychology, so I've done Roschach tests.

@jesst235 Ай бұрын

Our brains are wired to find something familiar in the chaos

@cassieoz1702 Ай бұрын

So. What does the research actually say? How strong is the effect size?.

@mozismobile Ай бұрын

That "always a even number under a vowel" thing was misrepresented, though. It does not say "only vowels have even numbers under them", he pointed out that "if there is a vowel, there's an even number". The other three options are not specified, and thus you learn just as little from turning over 4 as K or 9. You can only disprove the statement by turning over a vowel and finding an off number. (edit to fix logic!)

@isabelnoakes2575 Ай бұрын

I see what you mean, but if you turn over the 9 and there is a vowel, then it disproves it. I think that's what they are saying?

@PhrontDoor Ай бұрын

Nope. You don't need them to say that -- that's entirely different. He said it perfectly. She tried to assume that ONLY vowels can have even numbers -- that's a incorrect assumption. It's like saying reptiles ALWAYS lay eggs. Then you see an egg so you interpret the RULE to be ONLY reptiles lay eggs.

@Luckyforus686 Ай бұрын

So what does it mean that I’m a conspiracy theorist and only saw the sailboat and nothing else

@Jay-wc5qd Ай бұрын

Seeing an image in a bunch of dots is just called being creative 🤣

@greensteve9307 Ай бұрын

In a way, yes. The human brain is a pattern recognition engine. That's how vision, hearing, learning, etc. work.

@lindarackstraw7711 Ай бұрын

Just a boat in 3. I don’t believe in conspiracies either but i know people who are

@yahwea Ай бұрын

ABC is not a source I would trust on this topic.

@BradGryphonn Ай бұрын

@yahwea But you watched it anyway. And the ABC was reporting on the psychology of belief in conspiracy theories. But yeah, don't trust them because 'ABC bad. Fox good'. Or, you believe conspiracy theories and don't like ABC explaining why you believe them. Just a thought.

@PhrontDoor Ай бұрын

ABC is reporting it. It's not the SOURCE. The source is literally the better part of a century's worth of research on the topic. Can you, for example, provide any published refutative research ? Nice reasoning fail there yah.

@PhrontDoor Ай бұрын

The A and 9 seemed obvious. It's just -- logic. Saw the boat thing -- but I am dreadful at seeing such things, like those blasted stereograms where people say 'just try to look THROUGH/BEYOND it' -- never EVER worked for me. Broken brain I suppose.

@July-A7 Ай бұрын

Totally wrong ! People's minds work differently. Artists for example are much more attuned to details that most people will overlook completely. Autistic people think differently . There's absolutely no correlation between patterns and conspiracy theories . You are trying to simplify brain activity without realising that humans are much more complex than anyone can possibly ever understand , let alone compartmentalise. Besides, just because something is originally made as a random combination doesn't mean that it may not produce a recognisable object or result .

@wolja Ай бұрын

Interesting but I'd have to see the research. Pareidoliais common to many including sceptics like me.

@Boajhdk Ай бұрын

I chose A and 4 too

@timwhite7127 Ай бұрын

We believe because we want to. All religion is based on that...

@MrWombatty Ай бұрын

Even atheism is a belief!

@Ristro44 Ай бұрын

Interesting! Once again proving that people need to feel a sense of control in their own life to feel comfortable.... which is becoming increasingly impossible to feel... I don't blame anyone for believing in conspiracys with the world the way it is right now... I'm just sad there are so many that lead to harm like January 6th and people not going to the dr to save their babies...