Horizon: How You Really Make Decisions, BBC2 9pm, 24 Feb

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Looks interesting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03wyr3c

Every day you make thousands of decisions, big and small, and behind all them is a powerful battle in your mind, pitting intuition against logic.

Radio Times http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/cs5wnm/horizon--horizon-how-you-really-make-decisions

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  • Doghouse RileyDoghouse Riley Posts: 32,491
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    Hmm..

    Time for a bit of "navel gazing?"

    I often make carefully considered decisions, weighing up all the disadvantages.

    Then I say to myself. "Sod it! I'm doing it!"

    and I have few regrets..
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 87,224
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    "A battle between intuition and logic."
    Hmm.
  • LenitiveLenitive Posts: 4,263
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    I answered those questions logically. Smugface time :D
  • Ed R.MarleyEd R.Marley Posts: 9,130
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    Bet the producers loved that slow-mo of the black girl's tits:D
  • BlisterBlister Posts: 292
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    Sometimes I wish I wasn't so well-read in a wide range of scientific literature. Every Horizon has been on a subject that I already know about in much greater detail than the show goes into.
  • KJ44KJ44 Posts: 38,093
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    I'm 2/3 into "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, it's a fascinating book.

    Over on General Discussion, on the religion/atheism threads, some people claim they are rational, ... if only they knew.
  • ArcanaArcana Posts: 37,521
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    My favourite cognitive bias is the rhyme-as-reason effect which results in statements being regarded as more truthful when they are made to rhyme. #wtf
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 87,224
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    Some similarities with Liam Hudson's convergent and divergent thinkers.
  • nethwennethwen Posts: 23,374
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    My intuition told me that chap was going to get it right before the head count. (The cyber attack thingy) :D
  • mountymounty Posts: 19,141
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    wall street

    QUICK BET THE COMPANY PAYROLL
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 87,224
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    Good programme. I didn't feel patronised as I have in several recent Horizons.
  • nethwennethwen Posts: 23,374
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    KJ44 wrote: »
    I'm 2/3 into "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, it's a fascinating book.

    Over on General Discussion, on the religion/atheism threads, some people claim they are rational, ... if only they knew.

    This programme so reminded me of the current thread, especially KJ. :D

    I really like Professor Kahneman. Thanks for the heads up on the book. I'm going to look it up, and maybe buy a copy. I say maybe because I have so many books to read atm.
  • ArcanaArcana Posts: 37,521
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    Good programme. I didn't feel patronised as I have in several recent Horizons.

    I'd like to see a follow-up focussing on strategies to minimise the effect of cognitive bias.
  • jcafcwjcafcw Posts: 11,282
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    I think that was brilliant but that could just be my intuition.
  • nethwennethwen Posts: 23,374
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    jcafcw wrote: »
    I think that was brilliant but that could just be my intuition.

    Agreed. :cool:

    Thought it went over too quickly though. I'd like to see more programmes on this.
  • gemma-the-huskygemma-the-husky Posts: 18,116
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    Arcana wrote: »
    My favourite cognitive bias is the rhyme-as-reason effect which results in statements being regarded as more truthful when they are made to rhyme. #wtf

    can't be right. gangsta rap, blood :D
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    Telegraph review
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10658646/Horizon-How-You-Really-Make-Decisions-review.html

    Professor Daniel Kahneman is an eminent psychologist, and has won a Nobel Prize for his work on behavioural economics. Kahneman’s theory is that human beings are nowhere near as rational as we think we are – and that, in fact, most of our decisions are made by a separate, more intuitive psychological system, which is biased both by our species’ evolution and by our own previous experiences.
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    Telegraph review
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10658646/Horizon-How-You-Really-Make-Decisions-review.html

    Professor Daniel Kahneman is an eminent psychologist, and has won a Nobel Prize for his work on behavioural economics. Kahneman’s theory is that human beings are nowhere near as rational as we think we are – and that, in fact, most of our decisions are made by a separate, more intuitive psychological system, which is biased both by our species’ evolution and by our own previous experiences.

    There are exceptions though. My view of Horizon is that making the mstake of watching it is generally a waste of an hour. And on that basis I wasn't planning to watch that episode. However, from the description it did appear to be sufficiently different from their normal stream of annoying background music, irrelevant graphics and a "repeat everything from the past 5 minutes, every 5 minutes" format to be worth a shot.
    And it was. So even my cognitive bias against the programme can be overcome. :p
  • diablodiablo Posts: 8,300
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    This series of Horizon is generally quite good so far. Some offerings from previous series have been rather poor.

    They obviously aren't aimed at people who are expert in the fields they cover, obviously. They have detailed papers to read in the journals.

    I was assuming that some reference would be made to previous research about the subconscious making decisions before the conscious mind appeared to make its mind up.

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13658-brain-scanner-predicts-your-future-moves.html#.UwvnuoVvDS1

    But obviously, with only an hour to play with, they just looked at the results of those processes - and did a moderately good job of it I thought. :) I'm sure they could fill 8 hour-long programmes with this topic but I doubt the audience would turn up.

    For several years I've been aware of my cognitive biases and try to adjust for them. Sometimes it helps. :)
  • gomezzgomezz Posts: 44,507
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    Flawed question early on. There are many more words starting with an R as you can add re- to most words.
  • BlisterBlister Posts: 292
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    nethwen wrote: »
    My intuition told me that chap was going to get it right before the head count. (The cyber attack thingy) :D

    Racist.
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