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Anand_n Side Hero Username: Anand_n Post Number: 7764 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 173.174.176.93 Rating: N/A |
Well said, but when do you trust yourself not to "interpret facts " ?  Have a huge backlog of books , will catch this one too sometime  aa chal ke tujhe main leke chalu ik aise gagan ke tale jahan gam bhi na ho, aansoo bhi na ho,bas pyaar hi pyaar pale | ||
Stig Side Hero Username: Stig Post Number: 6268 Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 117.195.234.149 Rating: N/A |
Passes correct ga count chesa gorilla notice chesa .... Black team lo oka member vellipovadam kooda gamincha kani Back ground lo curtain color maradam gamanichale !!  -------- Only seven people have looked The Stig straight in the eyes. They are all dead now !! | ||
Nisarga Junior Artist Username: Nisarga Post Number: 308 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 115.242.136.204 Rating: N/A |
Did you notice the gorilla in the video? If we watch it after reading it we will notice is. But 50% percent of subject missing it is significant. while the very perception can get blinded ( due to lack of attention though) there must be many conceptual/rational/cognitive blind spots due to our prejudices/beliefs/conditioning. The book and experiments would suggest do not belief yourself ..be skeptic until any thing proved factually. | ||
Cocanada Moderator Username: Cocanada Post Number: 25646 Registered: 01-2008 Rating: N/A |
sounds verryyy interesting | ||
Nisarga Junior Artist Username: Nisarga Post Number: 307 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 135.245.168.34 Rating: N/A |
The Invisible Gorilla and Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us We seem to be wired to overtrust our memories and overrate our abilities A very interesting book. http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/overview.html We combine the work of other researchers with our own findings on attention, perception, memory, and reasoning to reveal how faulty intuitions often get us into trouble. In the process, we explain: * Why a company would spend billions to launch a product that its own analysts know will fail * How a police officer could run right past a brutal assault without seeing it * Why award-winning movies are full of editing mistakes * What criminals have in common with chess masters * Why measles and other childhood diseases are making a comeback * Why money managers could learn a lot from weather forecasters Again and again, we think we experience and understand the world as it is, but our thoughts are beset by everyday illusions. We write traffic laws and build criminal cases on the assumption that people will notice when something unusual happens right in front of them. We're sure we know where we were on 9/11, falsely believing that vivid memories are seared into our mind with perfect fidelity. And as a society, we spend billions on devices to train our brains because we're continually tempted by the lure of quick fixes and effortless self-improvement. The Invisible Gorilla reveals the numerous ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but it's more than a catalog of human failings. In the book, we also explain why people succumb to these everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. In short, we try to give you a sort of "x-ray vision" into your own minds, with the ultimate goal of helping you notice the invisible gorillas in your own life. ------------------ Professors of Psychology Chabris and Simons write about six everyday illusions of perception and thought, including the beliefs that: we pay attention more than we do, our memories are more detailed than they are, confident people are competent people, we know more than we actually do, and our brains have reserves of power that are easy to unlock. Through a host of studies, anecdotes, and logic, the authors debunk conventional wisdom about the workings of the mind and what "experts" really know (or don't). Presented almost as a response to Malcolm Gladwell's blink, the books pay special attention to "the illusion of knowledge" and the danger of basing decision-making, in areas such as investing, on short-term information; in the authors' view, careful analysis of assumed truths is preferred over quick, intuitive thinking. Chabris and Simons are not against intuition, "...but we don't think it should be exalted above analysis without good evidence that it is truly superior. ----------------------- Some interesting reviews: http://scienceblogs.com/thoughtfulanimal/2010/08/book_review _the_invisible_gori.php http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748703 302604575295060656442170.html http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2010/06/book-review-invisible-g orilla.html Chabris and Simons, however, are interested in why scientific evidence is so often rejected and consider why it is that anecdotes so much more powerful than data, and why we are sucked in to assuming there is causation when only correlation has been demonstrated. |