Jon Ronson On... Confirmation Bias

[@ex0ja]

I wish they released these as podcasts

[@Mrsbeatle1968]

I heard Jon Ronson say he's hoping to start a regular podcast soon ! Possibly on 11.11 this year !! Podcast info is true btw !

[@jamesabell9494]

Ha ha, no way I just watched this at 11:10 am without knowing the subject matter.

[@mscottveach]

Uh, in what universe does 'Anthony Blair' have 11 letters?

[@nicstroud]

Uri Gellar, "These skeptics will find a way to debunk things, I ignore that." 'Cause fuck evidence messing with my narrative. Dictionary definition of _conformation_ _bias._ Uri Gellar, "I don't wanna hear explanations."

[@nicelittlerunner]

There's a famous phrase in America, 'Never Forget 11:11'

[@reidcorin5000]

this clip should have been 11:11 long

[@nelsoncunnington7825]

"Jon Ronson On..." Eleven letters!

[@lukem118]

In the 90's when I was at Oxford there was this girl who was clearly into me, she smiled & fluttered her eyelashes. I was into her to but too shy to ask her out on a date. I was trying to pluck up the courage & ask her out but before I had the chance her cherry flavoured lip balm said "Noooo!" and that put an end to what could have been a long & wonderful courtship 😁😅🙈

[@tomparnell3977]

4:44 for me.

[@Xosidhe]

I knew a kid in high school in the early 90s who believed this! Back before we carried phones everywhere (before cell phones existed). We chalked it up to him being a pothead. He was really freaked out about it.

[@svettypoo]

"Could it be possible that I am Monjoronson?" LOL. FYI I would love to read or hear a piece that you do on global warming.

[@gretchenbaker7435]

I always see the 11 11. And was told years ago that when a conversation has a lull in it, the time is always twenty past or twenty to the hour. It seems to work fairly often!

[@ashleyfield63]

I'm watching this video about 11.11 and I look at the clock. 11.11pm. Spooky.

[@eightyeightdays]

Check out the article on criminal profiling titled Dangerous Minds by Malcolm Gladwell. Criminal profiling works by confirmation bias.

[@romant142]

Is it true confirmation bias when you do actually look at the clock a lot and it happens to be 1111 when you decide to look without trying or intent. It happens frequently to me

[@8sMachine]

For me and few of my friends it's always 11:11 or 12:12 or 13:13 etc... Very interesting!

[@nickmagrick7702]

really great piece

[@Digitalhunny]

I should apply to be a police officer now that I've watched this. I don't wanna be, at all but this makes me think I should. Very scary.

[@elia.0713]

For me it's always random clock time :-) but I have to say, I've just discovered Jon Ronson and I am pleased!

[@melmagicspell4033]

and at 11:11 he says 'thing'

[@nicelittlerunner]

00:14 here! Perhaps now people can see a window into the sort of blinkered defiance that leads Uri Gellar to be so convinced in all his other tripe, when he thinks this 11:11 thing is mystical. Most people can understand that looking as a clock and seeing 4 numbers the same is going to make pattern finding anmials like humans place some significance on it and make a note of it, it also happens twice per day, whereas the only other ones 00:00 and 22:22 happen once per day. If Uri can't see that one then he doesn't have a basic grasp, so why is he someone to ask about deep psychological phenomenon? he isn't

[@romant142]

nicelittlerunner It happens to me a lot but I know uri is A fraud

[@theanchella2006]

Now would be the time for me to get a psychosis. My birthday is 11.11 at 11:11. ;) ;o lol and I often look at the time aand it's 11:11. Well...

[@Mr-zx8fu]

It happens to me all the time. 11:11. But it’s not rocket science. There’s little reason to take note of all the times I look and it’s not 11:11. And Anthony Blair is 11letters is it? Tiresome man is Uri

[@Mrsbeatle1968]

This is brilliant btw

[@SyncopatedProgress]

Uri Geller, what a joke. He says he's rational and then continues to Carl Jung in the next sentence. And then says that he want's to believe, no matter if it's true or not, and then try to make "confirmation bias" to be something skeptics have come up with, rather than the product of actual research.

[@InkDropFalls]

SyncopatedProgress Uri Geller rational ...LOL no one thinks that....This is the Spoon bender

[@BabylonianHebrew]

wow well arent u so rational and skeptical! v smart, muh science

[@marielamarino1328]

9:11 for me Alllll the time

[@Mrsbeatle1968]

I think it might be 11.11 everywhere. Shit just noticed Donald Trump is 11 letters.

[@nicelittlerunner]

+Michael Sawyer 'seems common' is 11 letters, this is freeeeaaaky! .... aaargh another 11 letters!

[@nicelittlerunner]

Michael Sawyer and 'holy fucking' and 'fucking shit' lol

[@nicelittlerunner]

Michael Sawyer its bollocks ;)

[@nicelittlerunner]

Michael Sawyer It's finished

[@barbaras.7828]

Donald Trump - 11 letters

[@dealloc]

Uri Geller... Common sense... BAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHA. no.

[@aristeidislykas7163]

A pseudointellectual radio broadcast.

[@elia.0713]

Aristeidis Lykas Why do you think it is pseudointellectual? What does that even mean?

[@aristeidislykas7163]

"Pseudointellectual" is a word comprised of two other words. The word "pseudo" and the word "intellectual". I hope I explained it.

[@tusharmehra3772]

you never explained why you believe it to be pseudointellectual.

[@aristeidislykas7163]

I agree.

[@tusharmehra3772]

haha! You're sharper than I gave you credit for.