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Biases & Nonsense

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TalkinFrenchat Devoxx France 2023 · 2023-04-12..04-14· [soft-skills]

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name:Thomas Durand
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video:https://youtu.be/v_nAokE2D4U
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summary

Shows how human brains rely on fast but misleading shortcuts, demonstrating cognitive errors with concrete demos (chessboard A/B illusion, identical pixels; lemon-juice test for overconfidence; helmet survival bias; debunking the 10% brain myth). Names specific biases like confirmation bias and Dunning–Kruger, presents a four-part narrative model (narrative, resilience, asymmetry, attraction), and recommends slowing down, verifying sources, and training epistemic skills while warning that misinformation spreads via high volume and is cheap to create but costly to debunk.

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chapters (4)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 0:03Archaic Equipment
  3. 24:15Dunning-Kruger Effect
  4. 30:24The 4 Principles of Balivernes

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