As someone who works in public policy, you just delivered the best explanation of why financial literacy will never be a substitute for meaningful consumer protections i have heard!!
You aren't contra. You're Anya Turnbull and you have your own unique set of qualties that make you videos delightful. I'm personally think your voice is great. It carries a soothing tone that makes it easier to listen to your points, almost like hearing a friend detail these facts and figures they are passionate about, or a teacher.
The tendency in evolutionary psychology to believe that everything happens for a reason is one of the reasons that other biologists often don't take it very seriously. 🙂 It's one of the last remaining holdouts of naive selectionism in a field that has moved on to recognize the importance of drift, founder effects, neutral mutations, genetic hitchhiking, etc. - all of the stochastic forces affecting evolution. It's a lot harder to tease out what's selection and what's chance in human psychology, so evolutionary psychologists have clung a lot harder to just-so stories than other biologists mostly because that's much more satisfying than saying, "We don't know the answer, we don't know how to find the answer, and we don't even know if the answer will ever be findable."
Charlie Munger did a talk on all of the cognitive biases he keeps track of, he mentioned over 20 of them. Knowing them is good, trying to control them all the time is impossible. Great video, definitely got my attention on statistics by playing on overperception.
9:30 wow that recognition heuristic worked in an unexpected way . Reminds me of that one time I studied really really deep about my favourite subject, and was left confused by questions that were easily answered by my friends who only stuck to the minimum required study material. I scored less than them and could not for the life of me, figure out, what more could I have done to get a higher score.
I felt this on a spiritual level. I've been in the same position many times. In my case, I always called it analysis paralysis because I think too deeply about something, when a much more simplistic approach would give me the answer
A lot of questions become non-trivial, as you understand more of the relevant information. On the other hand, I have been able to generate creative solutions to questions that were explicitly based on study material, rather than memorizing the case studies. My answers had obvious flaws, but were at least plausible, and were remarked during class discussion of the test.
@@wutangmuslin One would not be so bold as to accept that description, but one does have aspirations. Note that I didn't mention any of my many failures. But thanks, anyway.
Oh Anya, thank you so much for your mind stimulating video essays. I really don't have anything bright to say, just words of appreciation. I hope you know how much we need people like you, to nudge the door of interest open. I always learn something new (to me) from your videos.
Glad I found your channel. Your older essays are excellent and I have binge watched them whole day. I in some way pride myself in spotting and pointing out logical fallacies. And I must admit, while I knew that logical fallacies and cognitive biases exist because they are useful, I wastly overestimated how often do I actually check my thinking for them. You mentioned that not being able to make intuitive decisions is an actual medical condition that will greatly diminish one’s ability to function. That made me consider that I probably make a lot more intuitive decisions than I realise, even if I try to account for “normal” functioning. Ultimately thinking something through very often boils down to making some intuitive assumptions based on some nebulous prior knowledge, and then seeing if what you gathered together is logically consistent. Because of this, spotting the hidden bias or fallacy of someone else is a lot easier than spotting your own. It wasn’t one of your blindspots to begin with.
Human perception and cognitive biases has been a topic ive been very interested in recently, so I'm very excited to watch this video. Vsauce and Veratasium talks about it a lot. Can't even remember all of them but there are a lot of interesting ones like the end of history illusion and survivorship bias. For some it may be scary that we can't be completely rational, but I think I find it comforting in a way, it helps me be less hard on myself
So-called completely rational is in fact irrational. It doesn't correspond to real life's possibilities or survivability of the species. It leads to 'final solutions' such as really equivocate to extinction.
I have to admit I was absolutely giddy when I saw there was a new video by Anya but I am a weirdo. Thanks for talking about this and I love how you synthesize so much information and yet you have a novel way of looking at it. Just brilliant!
Also, the more we're "activated" by alluring or alarming stimulations, this does - I think - arouse a more magical way of thinking (where biases are probably heightened). So, the more insecure we are, the more we're susceptible to this...
I don’t comment often but I wanted to say that I found this video enjoyable and informative. Thank you so much. Looking forward to more such videos from you❤
If a man named Gigarenzer were to tell me something, I would instantly believe it. That's my availability heuristic coming into play haha. What a chad name!
Okay I just have to point something that cracked me up - At 2:32, you make the remark about how you used to try topical backgrounds and costumes, but that you've since realized that you're not Contrapoints. As a new person to your channel (this is like, maybe the third video of yours that I've seen), I was looking over all your videos for the ones I was interested in (as one does), and upon seeing some of the examples of backgrounds and theatrics I literally thought "Oh ok, reminds me a little of Contrapoints" (which would have been fine, btw). Just absolutely made me laugh that you remarked about that early in this video 😅
Thank you for posting this video. As a US black american in the south eastern part of the country (the south) I too am incredibly frustrated and exhausted by all the propaganda and complacency that is created in this factory called the usa. I am now subbed 🙂. Please be careful.
It's interesting approaching this from an autistic perspective, because it seems we don't have the same access to these heuristics as neurotypicals and it's nice to dispel the myth that that makes us magically Rational. Because it's not great going without some of these. I don't relate to any of the positive self-judgement biases, partly because my sense of my capabilities are freighted with obvious struggle, and partly because masking teaches you that you're the problem in a world that fails to be okay for you and nobody else.
7:39 this one made me perk up, because I struggle greatly with it. Maybe it's the autism, but my brain is always noticing and picking up heaps and heaps of information from stimuli and I cannot filter it at all. So when confronted with a new task, I am inundated by a torrent of information that I need to analyze. Be it sensory or cognitive, it's always there. I take ages to make decisions and my functionality wanes often while trying to filter out my priorities. It's hard to stay focused when the texture of my clothes is painful, the noise around me is deafening, the lighting blinding, the words spoken to me sound garbled, and I'm asked to do a task that I am not able to break down and compartmentalize to initiate it. It's wild!
Anya, thanks for giving this video away. I've never heard about this topic and it was really interesting to realize how many biased situations I have in my life and rn I can catch myself and change my behavioral patterns. I searched some information in Russian and was shocked there are so many kinds of biases.
I'm so glad you made the point at the end about systems and individuals wanting to exploit our biases. I was literally thinking the exact same thing just before mentioned it. My confirmation bias therefore tells me it must a correct point!
That was fun. Thanks. My little old and ridiculously biased brain was comfortable while hearing the echoes in this chamber. It is unfortunate that i can already imagine all kind of people taking to the extreme the presented arguments in isolation for whatever confirmation bias that they have. And let us not forget also to thanks the small stimulating clips that helped so much.
girlll, you started the video and i was horrified bc im avoididng my statistical mechanics revison. thats for quantum mechanics though, but still shook me a little.
I think the most important thing about biases is to be aware of them. Just with that information, learning about the times our biases can harm us, will help to avoid those mistakes massively. Self-reflection is such a huge part in living (especially in today's society) and knowing about the mechanisms of biases and how they are actually not just evil little racists, sitting on our shoulders, would improve that reflection a huge deal. It is baffling to me, that we actually tend to make better decisions, at least in those who are somewhat random, when having less information, or at least a less complicated thought process. Maybe I'm gonna try that in my next exam :>
There's also the issue with the coin toss example of the listener misunderstanding the question and not realizing they're being asked about the chance of an exact sequence instead of the chance of a specific number of heads out of that sequence length. I think the best example of the question being subtly subjective that I keep running into is the classic "Monty Haul problem", because regardless of the intelligence or experience of the person trying to answer its presentation nearly always requires them to start by making an implicit assumption: either the position in the game we're analyzing is the result of an invariant script and is thus subject to regular probability analysis, or it is the result of another player with knowledge about the "board" we lack and who we are not playing a zero-sum game against (they are playing a series of rounds of this game against varying players, and their optimal payout is unclear but pretty definitively does not come either from all the other players winning or from them all losing) choosing to make a move and thereby both communicate and retroactively reduce the set of possible games to analyze to the ones in which they chose to make that move. You end up with people with differing answers (to differing questions) being certain they're right because their reasoning was entirely correct past the point of choosing what the question was.
You'd be surprised. I've worked and studied in different fields and find people interested in things unrelated to that profession or college courses. My job currently has me interacting with what I'd consider a lot of people and have often been surprised at their shared interest in what I thought were more niche things.
So interesting video! And it makes me feel better about myself as well lol. Also, i love Anya's humour. Istg i laughed so many times that i had to replay again and again some parts. Especially the part about becoming the beautiful mind guy who tried to estimate the velocity of pigeons really got me💀😂
You should try to soften your lights, the bulb just behind you is a great idea btw. But a simple light diffuser is quite cheap anywhere and easy to rig somewhere. Some poster, pictures (anything really) on your wall behind would also add value. It can be cheap, but it can make wonders in cozyness
Hey, I wrote an essay on this some time ago :D That was just a think peace, not so well researched, as your video (and without all the sexy statistics)), but yeah - leave bias alone! xD Biases are an important tool of thinking, and as with all tools - you have to know how and when to use them. p.s. love that title
I spent 20 minutes looking for a TH-cam video that lets the viewer participate in these cognitive biases quizzes, rather than just quickly tell you how most people failed to answer correctly. This is the only one I found. (Start-stop fallacy?)
Ofc you're not Contrapoints (yet), but she also spent super long building up the skill and resources to do what she does so well! Her earliest videos, which are all deleted from her channel now didn't look nearly as magnificent as they started becoming over the years. I loved the style in your earlier videos. Even though it ofc is cheaper and thus cheaper looking than that of Contrapoints, it really drew me in. Going to a jazz bar in Oslo (where I live) hearing local musicians play is not like it would be hearing Miles Davis play live (duh), but that doesn't stop it from being fun and interesting and beautiful. I hope that you return to experimenting with set and costume design in the future, it was really really cool ✌
Personally, don't care about the costumes, but want to reinforce what you said about the music. Being at live performances brings a much richer experience. You feel the music more fully through all your senses when you're there, but also through the atmosphere of the place, other peoples' reactions and especially the musicians' energy as they communicate with each other in their special ways.
I've been looking at your videos for a while now. The way you explain facts and your point of view to certain things/issues is amazing and straight to the point. From the brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the propaganda used by the Russian goverment, to everyday problems that most of us have to deal with, it makes me look to the world in a different and more positive way. Thank you Anya for the time and effort you put in your videos, you are an inspiration to me and many other people. You deserve much more subscribers! 👍❤️
What's said at 9:38 isn't generally true, it's just easier to come up with complex overfitting models as it's to develop a model which unveils actual yet complicated relationships in observable phenomena. E.g. the best weather forecasts employ complex models and do significantly better predictions than every simple heuristic (reg. forecasts of some days, afaik the best forecasts beyond a week aren't using much beyond climate records and current water temperatures). Big data seems often unnecessary (data hoarding) or even detrimental if it's used as a sort of reading tea leaves. But there are more examples for complex models which are actually better heuristics than more simple models. A version of Occam's razor could be used as a rule of thumb: If a complex model doesn't do better predictions than a more simple one, prefer the simple model. Btw, with recency bias the cut at 14:11 sounded to me that a depressed mind is often better than rational (a rather depressive thought) 🙈 And 👏 for using nerdy topics to make sex appeal as a marketing strategy less boring, this assumedly works really well with nerds and geeks 😜
I don't want to use the word genius or groundbreaking, because that seems far too hyperbolic and bombastic a word to actually use for modern people on a little site like youtube, But your videos have made me Really think sometimes 🤔 thank you for creating content in this space
As someone who works in public policy, you just delivered the best explanation of why financial literacy will never be a substitute for meaningful consumer protections i have heard!!
Good point. Especially given the average citizen's ability, or lack there of, to gauge risk. THanks for your work to help keep me and my family safe.
Great comment
You aren't contra. You're Anya Turnbull and you have your own unique set of qualties that make you videos delightful. I'm personally think your voice is great. It carries a soothing tone that makes it easier to listen to your points, almost like hearing a friend detail these facts and figures they are passionate about, or a teacher.
Considering I'm subscribed to Anya yet never heard of contra before this video speaks volumes to me about who is the superior information presenter.
Well, besides Contra the game.
Excuse my ignorance, what does "contra" mean?
@@aliskprado It means "counter", as in to oppose something, like counterargument.
In the case of contrapoints, it's just fancy for counterpoints.
@@definitivelylostcause Thank you internet person. I think I understand now they are talking about some other content creator by that name.
The tendency in evolutionary psychology to believe that everything happens for a reason is one of the reasons that other biologists often don't take it very seriously. 🙂 It's one of the last remaining holdouts of naive selectionism in a field that has moved on to recognize the importance of drift, founder effects, neutral mutations, genetic hitchhiking, etc. - all of the stochastic forces affecting evolution. It's a lot harder to tease out what's selection and what's chance in human psychology, so evolutionary psychologists have clung a lot harder to just-so stories than other biologists mostly because that's much more satisfying than saying, "We don't know the answer, we don't know how to find the answer, and we don't even know if the answer will ever be findable."
Ohhhh this is such a good comment
Me and my homies all love Anya turnbull
... being not actually half-dead, evidentially, certainly not cognitatively.
bruh
@@inyobill English please?
@@alex.g7317 Did you notice the poster's handle?
@@inyobill what… what’s a handle?
"i have since realised i am not contrapoints" thats that exact energy tho 💀, keep it up lover these types of essays
It’s always a good day when Anya uploads a new video.
Charlie Munger did a talk on all of the cognitive biases he keeps track of, he mentioned over 20 of them. Knowing them is good, trying to control them all the time is impossible. Great video, definitely got my attention on statistics by playing on overperception.
Being aware of your weaknesses is at least as important as being aware of your strengths: See "Dunning-Kruger Effect"
9:30 wow that recognition heuristic worked in an unexpected way . Reminds me of that one time I studied really really deep about my favourite subject, and was left confused by questions that were easily answered by my friends who only stuck to the minimum required study material. I scored less than them and could not for the life of me, figure out, what more could I have done to get a higher score.
I felt this on a spiritual level. I've been in the same position many times. In my case, I always called it analysis paralysis because I think too deeply about something, when a much more simplistic approach would give me the answer
A lot of questions become non-trivial, as you understand more of the relevant information. On the other hand, I have been able to generate creative solutions to questions that were explicitly based on study material, rather than memorizing the case studies. My answers had obvious flaws, but were at least plausible, and were remarked during class discussion of the test.
@@myrtila I'm stealing 'analysis paralysis' from you.
@@inyobill congratulations. You dwelled on the concept and made it your own. You must be a good critical thinker.
@@wutangmuslin One would not be so bold as to accept that description, but one does have aspirations. Note that I didn't mention any of my many failures. But thanks, anyway.
That 'slob' joke had me in stitches, love those little treats for people paying full attention!
Oh Anya, thank you so much for your mind stimulating video essays.
I really don't have anything bright to say, just words of appreciation. I hope you know how much we need people like you, to nudge the door of interest open. I always learn something new (to me) from your videos.
Expressions of appreciation are far from dim.
@@inyobill yeah… it’s very dim /jk
So glad you came on my for you page !
" I'm gonna go with 'biases' because I've heard that more" ! 1:37.
Cute play on the topic of "bias"!
I loved the bias discussions in our psych classes, never realized how much biases are not always bad!
for anyone else who gets an instant headache by the one-channel audio at 2:31 Windows settings > ease of access > audio > turn on mono audio
Thanks for the warning.
love me some statistics and control groups.
Glad I found your channel. Your older essays are excellent and I have binge watched them whole day.
I in some way pride myself in spotting and pointing out logical fallacies.
And I must admit, while I knew that logical fallacies and cognitive biases exist because they are useful, I wastly overestimated how often do I actually check my thinking for them.
You mentioned that not being able to make intuitive decisions is an actual medical condition that will greatly diminish one’s ability to function. That made me consider that I probably make a lot more intuitive decisions than I realise, even if I try to account for “normal” functioning.
Ultimately thinking something through very often boils down to making some intuitive assumptions based on some nebulous prior knowledge, and then seeing if what you gathered together is logically consistent.
Because of this, spotting the hidden bias or fallacy of someone else is a lot easier than spotting your own. It wasn’t one of your blindspots to begin with.
Human perception and cognitive biases has been a topic ive been very interested in recently, so I'm very excited to watch this video. Vsauce and Veratasium talks about it a lot. Can't even remember all of them but there are a lot of interesting ones like the end of history illusion and survivorship bias. For some it may be scary that we can't be completely rational, but I think I find it comforting in a way, it helps me be less hard on myself
So-called completely rational is in fact irrational. It doesn't correspond to real life's possibilities or survivability of the species. It leads to 'final solutions' such as really equivocate to extinction.
I have to admit I was absolutely giddy when I saw there was a new video by Anya but I am a weirdo. Thanks for talking about this and I love how you synthesize so much information and yet you have a novel way of looking at it. Just brilliant!
You don't need to be Contrapoints. We 💚 you because you're you.
I subscribed a while ago because I thought you were awesome. Bias confirmed.
And you were right.
Also, the more we're "activated" by alluring or alarming stimulations, this does - I think - arouse a more magical way of thinking (where biases are probably heightened). So, the more insecure we are, the more we're susceptible to this...
This video is great and awesome, informative although Anya's speech is very fast paced and I may have the perception bias.. haha.. Thumb up ...!
I don’t comment often but I wanted to say that I found this video enjoyable and informative. Thank you so much. Looking forward to more such videos from you❤
If a man named Gigarenzer were to tell me something, I would instantly believe it. That's my availability heuristic coming into play haha. What a chad name!
Truth is, if you have to ask the shirt is probably not clean enough.
You, Madam, deserve Patrions
How is that first coin problem not immediately obvious to everyone? Why humanity? Why?!
Yeah, but I smoke a tobacco pipe. So I'm definitely more rational.
Okay I just have to point something that cracked me up - At 2:32, you make the remark about how you used to try topical backgrounds and costumes, but that you've since realized that you're not Contrapoints. As a new person to your channel (this is like, maybe the third video of yours that I've seen), I was looking over all your videos for the ones I was interested in (as one does), and upon seeing some of the examples of backgrounds and theatrics I literally thought "Oh ok, reminds me a little of Contrapoints" (which would have been fine, btw). Just absolutely made me laugh that you remarked about that early in this video 😅
Thank you for posting this video. As a US black american in the south eastern part of the country (the south) I too am incredibly frustrated and exhausted by all the propaganda and complacency that is created in this factory called the usa. I am now subbed 🙂. Please be careful.
You haven't uploaded many videos over the years, but man, the quality of what you have to say, and how you say it...
I'm in love with your brain.
you are very brave Anya, very brave…
Brava!
Yay!! I said 'no idea' on the coin question
As someone who was diving with Tiger sharks a few months ago and had so many people think I'm nuts, THANK YOU!
It's interesting approaching this from an autistic perspective, because it seems we don't have the same access to these heuristics as neurotypicals and it's nice to dispel the myth that that makes us magically Rational. Because it's not great going without some of these. I don't relate to any of the positive self-judgement biases, partly because my sense of my capabilities are freighted with obvious struggle, and partly because masking teaches you that you're the problem in a world that fails to be okay for you and nobody else.
if it walks like a war criminal and talks like a war criminal then it is Tony Blair.
7:39 this one made me perk up, because I struggle greatly with it. Maybe it's the autism, but my brain is always noticing and picking up heaps and heaps of information from stimuli and I cannot filter it at all. So when confronted with a new task, I am inundated by a torrent of information that I need to analyze. Be it sensory or cognitive, it's always there. I take ages to make decisions and my functionality wanes often while trying to filter out my priorities. It's hard to stay focused when the texture of my clothes is painful, the noise around me is deafening, the lighting blinding, the words spoken to me sound garbled, and I'm asked to do a task that I am not able to break down and compartmentalize to initiate it. It's wild!
Exactly what i was thinking. She said "it _would_ take too much energy"... it really does! lol
I had no idea you lived in New York! Anyway this video was fascinating. Thank you.
"Will the boss be in? Does it smell?" ahem
I wish my statistics course had been taught like that
Anya, thanks for giving this video away. I've never heard about this topic and it was really interesting to realize how many biased situations I have in my life and rn I can catch myself and change my behavioral patterns. I searched some information in Russian and was shocked there are so many kinds of biases.
You just hacked my brain, I want that sweater now.
"hes an idiot, but hes my idiot."
I'm so glad you made the point at the end about systems and individuals wanting to exploit our biases. I was literally thinking the exact same thing just before mentioned it. My confirmation bias therefore tells me it must a correct point!
oh hey thanks for the positive energy, nice to see for a change, really cool vid anya !
That was fun. Thanks.
My little old and ridiculously biased brain was comfortable while hearing the echoes in this chamber. It is unfortunate that i can already imagine all kind of people taking to the extreme the presented arguments in isolation for whatever confirmation bias that they have.
And let us not forget also to thanks the small stimulating clips that helped so much.
Awesome video!❤
Consistently awesome videyas! Keep pushin king 👸🐸
Yess, always happy to see you upload!
omg what a great video ! i'm a big fan of contrapoints whose influence i sense in this video. i m subscribing !
I appreciated the appealing my man brain but I really stayed for the beautiful logical part of yours.
Great videos glad I found your channel.
Great video, thanks
Apophenia is when things line up by design . Pariedolia is when random occurences trigger outbursts .
girlll, you started the video and i was horrified bc im avoididng my statistical mechanics revison. thats for quantum mechanics though, but still shook me a little.
heurisms and skisms break our hearts daily lets keep smiling out there
Slavtrapoints was my first thought when I found your channel, though
Great video, thx!
Lmfao "I have since realized that I am not in fact Contrapoints' - That's funny because I got MAJOR Contrapoints vibes from this.
Birthday/ new year/ Christmas
yay, you're back! Saving this for later. ✨
Hoping you and Munecat collab. This was super fun, ty.
I think the most important thing about biases is to be aware of them.
Just with that information, learning about the times our biases can harm us, will help to avoid those mistakes massively. Self-reflection is such a huge part in living (especially in today's society) and knowing about the mechanisms of biases and how they are actually not just evil little racists, sitting on our shoulders, would improve that reflection a huge deal.
It is baffling to me, that we actually tend to make better decisions, at least in those who are somewhat random, when having less information, or at least a less complicated thought process. Maybe I'm gonna try that in my next exam :>
There's also the issue with the coin toss example of the listener misunderstanding the question and not realizing they're being asked about the chance of an exact sequence instead of the chance of a specific number of heads out of that sequence length.
I think the best example of the question being subtly subjective that I keep running into is the classic "Monty Haul problem", because regardless of the intelligence or experience of the person trying to answer its presentation nearly always requires them to start by making an implicit assumption: either the position in the game we're analyzing is the result of an invariant script and is thus subject to regular probability analysis, or it is the result of another player with knowledge about the "board" we lack and who we are not playing a zero-sum game against (they are playing a series of rounds of this game against varying players, and their optimal payout is unclear but pretty definitively does not come either from all the other players winning or from them all losing) choosing to make a move and thereby both communicate and retroactively reduce the set of possible games to analyze to the ones in which they chose to make that move. You end up with people with differing answers (to differing questions) being certain they're right because their reasoning was entirely correct past the point of choosing what the question was.
1:06 I did not need to see that 💀
A: comment 4 the algorithm
B: holy cow, another video so soon. We stan
hahaha the red lighting
I wish I'd meet people irl to be able to talk to Daniel Kahnemann about. Thanks for the new video, I love the editing.
You'd be surprised. I've worked and studied in different fields and find people interested in things unrelated to that profession or college courses.
My job currently has me interacting with what I'd consider a lot of people and have often been surprised at their shared interest in what I thought were more niche things.
I go to the university they taught at, people mention them constantly here :)
So interesting video! And it makes me feel better about myself as well lol. Also, i love Anya's humour. Istg i laughed so many times that i had to replay again and again some parts. Especially the part about becoming the beautiful mind guy who tried to estimate the velocity of pigeons really got me💀😂
You should try to soften your lights, the bulb just behind you is a great idea btw. But a simple light diffuser is quite cheap anywhere and easy to rig somewhere. Some poster, pictures (anything really) on your wall behind would also add value. It can be cheap, but it can make wonders in cozyness
I'm really not trying to be a douche and mansplaining cinema, just a friendly advice :)
This subject is not my usual interest, but the sexy bits helped me through it!
Hey, I wrote an essay on this some time ago :D That was just a think peace, not so well researched, as your video (and without all the sexy statistics)), but yeah - leave bias alone! xD Biases are an important tool of thinking, and as with all tools - you have to know how and when to use them.
p.s. love that title
As a math guy, i knew the answer to the opening immediately, but i love learning about biases.
Edit: 7:33 I'm a mess 😠
Great vid! Big love from Moscow
I spent 20 minutes looking for a TH-cam video that lets the viewer participate in these cognitive biases quizzes, rather than just quickly tell you how most people failed to answer correctly. This is the only one I found. (Start-stop fallacy?)
If chance of getting either side of a coin is 50% it will eventually avereges out in a long distance.
New to the channel, love it
Usually, I hate when a video is out of focus 🤷🏻♂
Great conclusion. Super got it. Eat Facebook.
Ofc you're not Contrapoints (yet), but she also spent super long building up the skill and resources to do what she does so well! Her earliest videos, which are all deleted from her channel now didn't look nearly as magnificent as they started becoming over the years.
I loved the style in your earlier videos. Even though it ofc is cheaper and thus cheaper looking than that of Contrapoints, it really drew me in. Going to a jazz bar in Oslo (where I live) hearing local musicians play is not like it would be hearing Miles Davis play live (duh), but that doesn't stop it from being fun and interesting and beautiful. I hope that you return to experimenting with set and costume design in the future, it was really really cool ✌
Personally, don't care about the costumes, but want to reinforce what you said about the music. Being at live performances brings a much richer experience. You feel the music more fully through all your senses when you're there, but also through the atmosphere of the place, other peoples' reactions and especially the musicians' energy as they communicate with each other in their special ways.
Really good video. Solid presentation of an important topic.
Quality editing!
PS: I'm a shite driver :)))
"Error management", or "wishful thinking", in my case, anyway.
Fascinating channel. 10/10
I love, love, love that you did this at the same time I am studying biases in my psych degree! My (hopefully decent) grade for this module thanks you
Kahneman and Tversky are the G.O.A.T. of cognitive biases. All my homies love thinking fast and slow.
I've been looking at your videos for a while now. The way you explain facts and your point of view to certain things/issues is amazing and straight to the point. From the brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the propaganda used by the Russian goverment, to everyday problems that most of us have to deal with, it makes me look to the world in a different and more positive way. Thank you Anya for the time and effort you put in your videos, you are an inspiration to me and many other people. You deserve much more subscribers! 👍❤️
What's said at 9:38 isn't generally true, it's just easier to come up with complex overfitting models as it's to develop a model which unveils actual yet complicated relationships in observable phenomena.
E.g. the best weather forecasts employ complex models and do significantly better predictions than every simple heuristic (reg. forecasts of some days, afaik the best forecasts beyond a week aren't using much beyond climate records and current water temperatures).
Big data seems often unnecessary (data hoarding) or even detrimental if it's used as a sort of reading tea leaves.
But there are more examples for complex models which are actually better heuristics than more simple models.
A version of Occam's razor could be used as a rule of thumb:
If a complex model doesn't do better predictions than a more simple one, prefer the simple model.
Btw, with recency bias the cut at 14:11 sounded to me that a depressed mind is often better than rational (a rather depressive thought) 🙈
And 👏 for using nerdy topics to make sex appeal as a marketing strategy less boring, this assumedly works really well with nerds and geeks 😜
Great video, I hesitate to walk around evo psych because of the ways it is misused (mysoginy, racism, eugenics) but you cleanly avoided those 👍
Rewatching after a year, and I'm laughing my arse off at sexy Anya selling statistics XD
You had me at inner stoner. Slava Ukraine!
1:06 hmmmmmm
Love any new content
I love Kirkland brand Contrapoints she should have all the success.
Missed you girl, love watching you
Me: “Tony Blair was a duck 🦆? That explains a lot…”
The Glorious Duck Nation: “He isn’t one of ours and we don’t want him. Quack.”
great topic and such a relief after all the videos of bros telling everyone that they think irrationally! p.s. I'll be missing your chainmail looks
скучаюююю
очень :(
What's the Russian idiom mentioned at 13:38? Something плохи ... свой
плохонький, да свой :)
i love your videos! another banger
cool thanks!
If I confess to not having a lot of positive bias cluster, does that tell on my mental health ?😅
I don't want to use the word genius or groundbreaking, because that seems far too hyperbolic and bombastic a word to actually use for modern people on a little site like youtube, But your videos have made me Really think sometimes 🤔 thank you for creating content in this space