We're All Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely

[@cdbaylac1]

the good thing of you tube is that you can find hundreds of people with a bright mind at the blink of an eye

[@lauraford1580]

Well researched, well written, & well read. download mp3 version @ tinyurl . com \ qcrz9tx . remove spaces.

[@TyCetto]

Yes, very true. I am always questioning old traditions and values and in most cases people think I'm crazy for doing so, but after a bit of explanation, must do in fact follow my train of thoughts. I'm all for that everything we do should be scrutinised over and over again. Unfortunately we tend not to do so, as we mostly are bound by all that rigid thinking and not by a free process of thoughts. But I have had a lot of success with kicking to the way people around me are thinking, rude but....

[@troysKILLbruins]

i advise buying the book. this guy has something really important to say to the world.

[@CollegeRenegade]

Just watched this video in my Portfolio Management class. It's amazing how this also ties into the financial world.

[@michaelmcgraw1536]

I watched it for a MS in Intelligence Analysis program and I immediately thought about business world applications.

[@batlin]

I love what he has to say and how he says it. Very interesting guy!

[@mehdiezatabadi]

Can't agree more!

[@msmusicmaestro61]

I'm going to be taking his course onlne

[@redshiftexperiment]

his point was that vision was something that we are "suppose" to be good at. We spend all of our time dealing with visual problems and we still make mistakes. So we will make many more mistakes when dealing with things that are not our forte.

[@dennoow]

hahaha I'm from the Netherlands, that part about the letter is true! They actually had a huge campaign with that exactly that option! Great stuff! Very interesting!

[@redshiftexperiment]

"seeing visual illusions" indicates that you would make poor decisions if you had to base those decisions on your incorrect perceptions. The concept is that people make mistakes based on their perceptions. It is just a good introduction to the meat of the studies that he has done.

[@Memubitsu]

This is a rather good insight when organizing your kitchen so that you eat what you "want" for breakfast.

[@shaheedaaq]

Absolutely Awesome! Enlightening, Entertaining and applicable to everyone whether you are trying to get a raise from your scrooge boss, or get your kids to clean their room or try to get that perfect date!

[@VictorLepanto]

@spartonne: It was something of a cheat. The square perceived as being a lighter shade of yellow was in a shadow on the apparent side of the cube. We see the square standing out brighter then the surrounding squares & thus perceive it as lighter then the squares surrounding it. It was in fact lighter then them.

[@supreetmahurkar183]

top 5 irrational things we do kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoeXgZ6bnaudmas a video to watch

[@tdegler]

There is very simple way to check it. Pause the movie, screenshot it, then load the saved picture into any (even simpliest) paint software, then cut a part of the image showing one square, and close it to the other square. And for the future - worst thing you can do in your life (but ofcourse most obvious) is to try and influence other people with your intuitions without putting ANY work to check if they are correct. Unless ofcourse you intend to fool other people the way you fool yourself.

[@VictorLepanto]

No. Again, you need to read the book, it transformed my thinking. The reality is the vast complex network of social understanding is so great your mind can't comprehend the vast & complex reasoning behind the pattern.

[@VictorLepanto]

These pattern of influence are NOT irrational. They are necessary for us in living collectively w/ other human beings. I good book to read on this subject is the wisdom of crowds. We rely on cues to acquire information that would not be available to us otherwise. We as human beings engage in a kind of collective consciousness & thinking.

[@sicktoaster]

With the cube one looks at it, it looks like it is under shade and then one expects that you are asking about what color it is normally and expect that it is only brown-looking because it is under shade.

[@christinas.4342]

Did you read this guy's book? One of his experiments was about showing how most people's commitment to originality is just about being popular and feeling good about themselves in front of others.

[@syzforever]

Yes, if you read his book, you will know that he is really unlucky when he was a child. And he went through the painful time others can hardly imagine

[@vidfreak56]

It depends on how you define "irrational". Many people are actually make irrational statements or have irrational beliefs, but are indeed doing so for rational reasons. IE happiness, fear, greed, or some other natural motive.

[@thecaveoawesomeness]

That ad was a good example xD I have actually chosen things based on that. I love his videos

[@721tri]

@sk8ermr He was born in New York while his father was studying for a degree at Columbia University, but grew up in Ramat Gan and Ramat Hasharon, Israel. When he was 18 and a newly enlisted soldier of the IDF he suffered third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body from an accidental magnesium flare explosion. Then he decided to study psychology.

[@Shak333k]

Awesome!

[@TyCetto]

That's a matter of opinion! I think that I've gained some ground in some aspects, but of course it's a matter of my own opinion in the end! An example could be that we as humans are not monogamous, so we should reconsider our relationships with that in mind, IMO.

[@ObamaPress]

Brilliant!

[@DSBrekus]

@VictorLepanto The fact that there are rational evolutionary reasons for these behaviours doesn't make them any less irrational. Also I would challenge the claim that they are all necessary, many are simply wasteful and short-sighted with no gain for anyone.

[@MirandaGhrist]

And here I thought irrational decisions and behaviors was influenced by the 2nd law of "you can't fix stupid".

[@OsyenVyeter]

The implications of our inclinations towards the default could be huge in regaurds to religion and what religion we were born into.

[@TyCetto]

You could say that, but still; seen in a larger context we are irrational beings destroying our own habitat.

[@Strathom185]

Super video, but read the book. It's not only fun, it's learning how we behave and who we are.....

[@PyonDude]

I don't think people are irrational. but, people are rational. Risk/Return point of view is important, but the analysis is done in limited criteria and time scale. People who live and think in limited world see people are irrational.

[@AllGrowing]

Thanks for this interesting research, Dan!

[@z4294967296]

brilliant.

[@whyabadi]

Informative , pleasant, and entertaining.

[@HiryuuHonyaku]

That Economist example - I swear to God, Steam has been pulling that shit on me for years.

[@razzmecotl]

That was fascinating. Thank you for sharing it. :)

[@rungazippa]

great wrk dan. well done.

[@TyCetto]

Yes I did read Dan's book Predictably Irrational. What's your point?

[@NannyOggins]

If only we had tutors in High Schools as witty and entertaining as this guy. the incidence of truancy would fall dramatically.

[@christinas.4342]

Nanny Oggins You're supposed to be interested in things because they're important, not because they're entertaining. There's nothing entertaining about studying law of medicine, if people could only do things that are entertaining, our society would collapse.

[@christinas.4342]

And has your questioning benefited you or anyone else yet? Did you come up with something that is demonstrably superior to the old way?

[@CalumnMcAulay]

great talk!

[@sicktoaster]

...overactive people will endlessly deliberate over even the simple decision to go to the bathroom. So, this general bias towards making the easier decision is reversed in some people sometimes to a crippling degree.

[@rungazippa]

great work dan. well done.

[@TyCetto]

OK, but I wouldn't call it a nonconformist phase in my case; but nonconformist life. I've done it too long and I'm too old for that to be just a phase :-) Cheers from Singapore!

[@m0rtem]

fascinating!

[@obgfoster]

I've read the book and I agree 100%

[@yonifra2]

Great lecture!

[@sicktoaster]

08:20-Haha I cheated their influence, I did the opposite, I checked the form. Therefore I am in control. Other people don't have control because they don't take initiative to take control. 09:17-What about the cost of thinking about it in the first place, the rational decision in this case is to be impulsive. 11:50-This does worry me and it really deflates the whole security of "just trust them they're professionals". I've heard somewhere about a certain part of the brain where if it is...

[@MJLM2312]

You are right, but that depends on the social circle, under a Dawkins' video, for instance, a christian would be belittled, at many other places too, like college, etc. But go to a mall or a supermarket were you'd find mostly average people, and people would have a different reaction. And this isn't only with religion, have a social scientist show how bad it is for society carrying on an obsolete system, and he'd be called a communist or a traitor and what not, because people Believe things work

[@VictorLepanto]

@DSBrekus: Once again, go find the book The Wisdom of Crowds, it is precisely about how we as humans think in a collect way & perceive more through a kind collective in intelligence. Ever hear that "two heads are better then one?" How about 7 billion? How we interact w/. others helps us collectively come closer to the truth.

[@Tomer1776]

To follow your analogy, he shows in his book that the shephards are irrational, and then suggests that they should have more control over us sheep. "This irrational sheep doesn't know what it does! Better get the irrational shepherd to work more!"

[@NikkiNolanVideo]

I would highly recommend his book Predictably Irrational and if you like it read Blink by Malcolm Gladwell but if you dont like reading listen to Radio Lab on WNYC New York Public radio all super awesome!

[@fielsjd]

Great video.

[@spartonne]

Holy shit that cube thing was trippy!

[@w584450]

The essence of Chaos theory is recognizing patterns, not many have that skill. You should see his other videos and read his books. I guess his students would always look him suspiciously because he often conducts experiments on them. lol.

[@commando2047]

quite informative

[@SPOON007a]

very insightfull

[@Tomer1776]

I'm reading it right now. I like it a lot but I don't get how he can say "economists don't take our irrationality into account and therefore we should let the government step in" when he himself shows that the government is irrational and makes dumb policies (publishing salaries of CEOs to reduce their salaries, causing the salaries to sky rocket). He proves the government is irrational, then proves individuals are irrational, and then suggests the government should control us more.

[@JTCGiantz56]

Very very interesting stuff

[@chaingangpictures]

Amazing insight.

[@albergoabruzzo]

good and interesting ....... thank's

[@Bazompora]

No ... I don't think so; when focussing on the 2 squares (image paused, yet without coverup background), they do look one and the same color.

[@redshiftexperiment]

my opinion was that having these illustrations worked well for his topic. I guess we agree to disagree.

[@sk_nkw_rks]

The ten dislikes are always to ones invited out to the bar...

[@EriNatori_FFXIV]

no wonder the $1 more for large pizza and stuff seems so TEMPTING LOL

[@demoras]

Man! This guy is great! :D

[@christinas.4342]

So what kind of traditions do you question?

[@dodgydogman]

Holy shit iv never been so wrong. I just did that and it BLEW MY MIND.

[@jordanburkland]

@cosg9531 I like to read the comments before the videos often so that I can clearly see the controversies in it. If I understand you right i disagree. When someone makes a statement with noticable roots in a lack of fact and evidence they can be assumed to have made an irrational thought. If people also commonly make this choice then it is possible to predict this irrationality as the majority response, therefore someone would be right to say that they can predict this irrationality.

[@simonbour]

TED talks are released under Creative Commons License, so it's not a problem.

[@inkarnation]

But, the two first examples didn't really convince me: They work with perspective and lightness in a way that our brain has used to interprete the visual signals since we are babies. So, of course we can tell ourselves the facts but we can't change the effect of our nerve impulses just after hearing these two facts, because that's the way our brain works. For me this has nothing to do with intelligence our thinking, as it is when we are dealing with more complex information.

[@noko2002]

@88dtest It's like the pint glass on a cigeratte pack, u get a piece of thread and measure the circumfrence of the rim of the glass..... turns out longer than the lenght of the glass on the cig box!.... 98% of people think the circumfrence is shorter!.......

[@DouglasNetchurch]

When I have to look at an ugly logo and somebody makes unfair claims, even lie, I do. If it's just pirated, I don't.

[@weefeatures]

About his face: for the record, when he was 18 he suffered severe burns due to a magnesium explosion. The injuries are merely superficial, just listen to what this guy has to say, and don't be superficial yourselves.

[@michaeltheman8888]

wow interesting stuff

[@deltaxcd]

these are not ilusions-mistakes but interpretation because these things are 3d objects and they require proper conpensation. we do not see colors or lines, we see objects.

[@inkarnation]

To change the meaning of perspective illusion or lightness of an object would be the same as we were told to change the meaning of these letters, so that "A" from now on would be pronounced as "T", etc - or actually this would even be changed more easily because letters are learned much later and don't touch so fundamental constructions in our brain.

[@TyCetto]

I wish, but they don't! Trust me!

[@stephenhockley]

Maybe a reference to a previous talker on the day..?

[@88dtest]

im i the only guy thinking that the left table is longer since the red line isn't parallel to the table in both cases?

[@AleclikeBaldwin]

excellent -Alec

[@TyCetto]

I wish you were right, but we are very irrational, especially on a large scale. An example; we're as a race sawing of the branch we are sitting on... We're polluting the planet that provides us shelter, we're biting the hand that feeds us. That's not rational at all.

[@BareFool]

hah! Now I gotta get studying further into this and see how I can apply it to making my enemies commit suicide... :D

[@Zederok]

I don't think this is irrational at all, its not like our polluting will show tangible ramifications within our lifetimes so in essence we'll never pay the price for our greed.

[@eirefrance]

Suck it, objectivism!!!! I love this video.

[@sicktoaster]

What about nutrients? It's not just calories.

[@Tomer1776]

I like Ariely, however, in his book he implies that because we're too irrational and complex, the government should step in more when it comes to regulating the market. He claims that when a chapter or two before he demonstrates how government regulations are often WRONG and DAMAGING because policy makers happen to be human beings, and therefore flawed. He wants irrational people to be controlled by those HE sees as irrational? Weird.

[@XxSquishymanxX]

I think Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth"

[@MJLM2312]

It's also irrational the way we hold onto our beliefs, onto our ideologies either on politics, religion, values system, etc., believing something because it's tradition, because it was said by an authority, because we've been brought up to think that our way ís the way. Even if the evidence shows the opposite, if we don't change we won't survive, neither most of the other living beings.

[@christinas.4342]

MJLobos Oooh, look at me, I'm dis intellectual free thinking individyual in a world full of brainwashed sheep!

[@MJLM2312]

And the people using the scientific method to reach their conclusions, people who don't hold onto beliefs but onto facts, in the social and natural sciences, are belittled because most of the things they say we should change (and could change with technology), aren't profitable for someone. That's very irrational.

[@SWLinPHX]

Damn, are we just sheep?!?

[@dodgydogman]

The brown and yellow rubix cube thing is fake. They are differend colours. When they are covered up, the bottom 1 changes colour. Seriously, cover the tom 1 up and look, it changes.

[@sicktoaster]

Can I cheat this? I don't want to be irrational. If I learn about this and correct for it can I then be rational?

[@F00dTube]

I think he picked up the troll version of that illusion

[@Seanisnot1]

Everybody else who presented had a documentary about themselves?

[@Gooddavi]

This is why i love blockchain

[@azzy314159]

@vireouson Sorry, I was wrong! :-( I saw the whole now. He is very interesting.

[@matrixinterface]

YOU are belittled for believing in science? Go onto any video talking about science and say that you believe in God and the Bible and see who gets belittled and how quickly and by how many people.

[@lazygamerz]

Thanks captain obvious, all the people who read my comment probably thought math could do that also but that I ran out of characters.

[@christinas.4342]

So?