I Believed These Four Lies
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2024
- I'm so nervous about this video. It's weird to admit getting duped by something, but there's nothing that scares me more than people who think it never happens to them. Examing why and how it happens...like, what's going on in my own brain, and also in the systems I'm interacting with, is very important in my work. Creating content based on definitely bad / misleading information is one of my big worries.
These are all really weird and complicated examples that I could spend a further hour or two discussing. Like, for example, that (depending on your start date and the data set you use) the relationship between rent and income can be shown to diverge substantially or stay very close together (though, not in 2022 or 2023, where all data sets show them diverging in the US.)
The NOAA data one is the most fascinating to me as I honestly think that the internet's response to the information is a kind of classic misinformation / degradation of trust cycle where an organization says something that is then misinterpreted by people online and then the misinterpretation is assigned to the authority (who never said it) and used to degrade the authority of that organization.
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"I was alright with someone putting it in my head, but turns out I was not alright with putting it in someone else's." Good line. Good man
I have done that! It’s great to question something when I start sharing it.
I take this to the extreme and second guess even things that I intimately know, so I’ll often fact check before saying anything just to feel secure saying it at all even if it’s like something I’m very sure about.
But I think that’s the self worth trauma so not sure if that’s a good thing
And that is why the best way to really learn something is to try to teach/explain it to someone else. You'll find the holes and many don't like potholes in their beliefs.
@@sylva5359 I've done exactly this, only to find that what I was about to share was, in fact, made up. Thankfully, my friends group is incredibly smart and informed, and it makes me double check myself before embarrassing myself.
I feel like this
"This aligns with my understanding" is probably the main reason why most lies gain traction.
Yep. Confirmation bias is often where it starts. But where it *ends* is up to whether a person actually cares about truth or not
I would say it's almost always the case. The only exceptions are when people are spreading lies on purpose to push their own narratives. So the people who make propaganda spread lies to mislead people... but the people who believe it, is almost always for this reason.
It's not the lie, but the myth that confounds human understanding.
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@@faithfuljohn Exactly. There is a difference between spreading misinformation (something you erroneously believe to be true), and spreading disinformation (deliberate lies) for the purposes of political propaganda, and/or grifing.
When an honest man discovers he is mistaken, he either ceases being mistaken or ceases being honest. Thank you for being the man who ceases being mistaken!
I’m writing this down.
This could be taken another way entirely from how you meant it.
For instance it could mean that the honest man no longer tells the truth. Rather perpetuates the lie to save face...
ooOoo catchy. though, I'd replace the "or ceases being honest" with "or enters into denial". that seems to me more common. but then, suddenly, not so catchy. what can you do
@@phillystevesteak6982yeah but it breaks the poetic aspect of the quote, which utilizes the two adjectives stated prior, e.g. “mistaken” and “honest”
@@Masteretel I think that's exactly how it's intended to be taken. You either amend your understanding so as to not be mistaken, or you stop being honest (with yourself and others) by continuing to hold the mistaken belief.
"I will run to fact check something I disagree with and I will not do that with stuff that aligns with my previous conception" powerful human nature. I need to fact check my beliefs as much as I need to fact check my doubts.
Honestly, I've tried to teach myself to be MORE skeptical of things that conveniently align with my world view. The cognitive bias is strong.
I also believe that that is the importance of discourse between people analyze each others beliefs, then listening to each other
this whole sentence read as. 'I am Human and I understand that"
@@roaaoife8186 I think that is a good rule actually. I need to marinate on this. Ofc it is a bunch of going out of my way... but being accurate is important to me. But initiating tasks is also challenging. Oof
@@xGodofAtheistsx it's more specific than that, hence why it was written as it was written. There are many different things you can associate with being human, this is just one part
When I hear "you are not immune to propaganda" I think of stuff like this.
Well, I am immune to propaganda. I have managed to objectively look at the content I come across and understand what is true or not, without any error or judgement. My mind is an encyclopedia of objective truth. It can not be debunked, for the truth can not be debunked. When I look at others with a different view on things, I laugh to myself, then I stop up and feel sorry for the ignorance they display. Because what a wonderful world it would be if everyone had the right opinions about everything, like me? I am truly a genius.
@@mism847 youre falling into your own propaganda now, be careful.
always be humble, fellow dispenser of truth and facts, because one day, our veiw on reality could be shattered by something as simple as a flower.
@HYpr1337time They are obviously joking.
@@HYpr1337time it's not that hard to detect hyperboles in text form.
@@ryno4ever433 meh.
i was high.
plus its text, sometimes tone doesnt exactly come across when people are genuinely like that.
The point about feeling weird only when putting maybe-wrong things into other people's brains resonated a lot. That's usually when I have a moment of "hmm, perhaps I should fact-check this...", when I suddenly find myself relaying some tidbit which didn't feel worth checking when it was 'just' me hearing it.
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Same. 🤦🏼♀️
Same here. Although I was gaslit a lot growing up, so I think I'm now a bit obsessive when it comes to verifying facts. Note: that has necessarily stopped the gaslighting attempts, but they do get a bit flustered now, when I bring facts.
I’d never seen that rent graph before today, but even though I know it’s incorrect, I do find the image is more sticky in my brain.
That feels somewhat ok, though. Like, we may not have time to fact check every claim we hear, but we can prevent the spread of misinformation by at least fact checking the claims we share. And if we don't have time to fact check the information we share, maybe that's a sign we're sharing too much.
Thanks for the transparency and showing how easy it is to get tangled up by misleading info sometimes. 😊
Thank you for this. My motto is, "I would rather look stupid today, than be stupid tomorrow."
....This is why we have fact checkers...
You mean they have a reason other than for the Right to hate?
That's a joke.
Fact Checkers are great, however for social media platforms we need education. People need to be taught that just because somebody made a video on tiktok or youtube doesnt mean its the truth and very well could be an outright lie. This is only getting worse as deep fakes and AI are getting better by the day.
Fact checkers for your own videos you produce are great.
Fact checkers in social media are a propaganda tool and are bias.
@@aminorityofone education requires understanding context that we almost entirely shun on these here internets.
Hank trying to build engagement here by using his alt account.
Touching grass isn't going to cut it for me this year, Hank. I need to be absorbed into a wetland by strange and wonderful algae.
If this person doesn't listen to Hozier I'll be very surprised 😉
@mariannetfinches oh great now I got a song about foxes getting their taste lodged in my head xD
This comment is tumblr codded i love it
That's because you need to mow the grass to cut it
become the bog witch you want to see in the world
Hank is the one who taught me that anything that confirms my bias online is something I should always check data and refine before sharing.
I engage with things that confirm my bias, but dismiss and ignore the extreme ones that seem flawed automatically.
Actually homelessness isn't just a lack of homes. It is a lack of affordable homes. Literally hundreds of thousands of homes stay empty because people(and corporations) are not willing to sell them at a loss.
A town I lived in required luxury developers to also build a percentage of affordable homes as part of the construction approval process… and ‘somehow’ many of these projects managed to weasel their way out of it or didn’t build the amount required. IF they built them, they were built poorly and would fall into disrepair. So I definitely agree it’s way more complicated than a ‘lack of homes’ when we have greedy, psychotic developers, investors, and politicians who do anything but make sure affordable housing is built. Plus you can’t talk flippantly about ‘building more houses’ without also thinking about gentrification. The more building and development in my town, the more poor people and PoC got pushed from their historic neighborhoods and communities. What’s it matter if there’s more homes built if we’re forcing people out of their historic neighborhoods? Or when people are being economically pressured to relocate and now have larger commutes in order to avoid homelessness (god forbid your car breaks down now). Like it’s such a complicated issue. Don’t even get me started on zoning…
Thank you! That's what I was thinking at Hank while watching
It would be nice if homelessness was that simple but unfortunately it is not
Where I live there is so many condemned and abandoned houses that are unable to be sold because of the cost of the property. I am getting ready to be homeless and the best option me snd my family have currently is a 50,000$ trailer. This is how bad the housing has gotten
Not to mention communities with a big tourism business (for this example I'm thinking cities on Hawaiian islands), people owning and operating airbnbs can have a chokehold on local housing that bars local residents from housing
Yep. Vancouverite here. Thousands of empty expensive condos plague this city while we in the underclass struggle to find an affordable rental unit in the outskirts of the suburbs.
There's some conversation about the lack of homes being a cause of homelessness, specifically some talk about how there are plenty of vacant homes for people in cities where there are homeless people. The people I've talked to who work in housing or homelessness agree that this is a distraction that stops us from confronting the reality of the obvious and clear connection between limited housing stock and homelessness. When there is less housing available, rents go up. Search for "vacancies are a red herring" if you want to read more on this!
I've always heard there's plenty of houses and housing alternatives (apartments, condos, house boats, mini homes, mobile homes, etc) in the US to house every person / family unit (because not all people live alone), but the people either don't live where these vacancies are, or they do but the places are priced too high for them to be able to afford them. And, if you're already homeless, being able to afford a place to live becomes an overwhelming task for many because it's hard to get a job that pays well if you don't have an address to put on the application. There's a lot that goes into it. But regardless, if you're going to ask for more housing to be built, ask for *affordable* housing to be built, not million dollar homes.
I mean this is true due to capitalism in general, your never going to utilize 100% of a thing because if you did prices would change. so unless we started giving away houses for free "vacant homes" existing isnt the problem. but in a weird idealistic no money world those homes should count against homelessness but pretending thats the world we live it is just a really easy way to ignore the true problems
As a housing econ nerd, I explain it like hermit crabs. Not all vacant shells are the right size for a given crab and you need lots of empty shells so that every crab can find the one that fits them!
Then why are there empty units I can see from my apartment? Why have some of these units sat empty for over a year? Why are new luxury apartments built every day and it doesn't solve the housing crisis? People aren't sitting outside because there are no available housing units, it's because they cannot afford the housing that is available.
15 million empty homes in America. Homeless population in America(according to H.u.d.) : axp. 650,000
How exactly is our problem not enough homes. We have roughly what, 23-24 homes per homeless person.
We have tons of empty homes. They're used as short term vacation rentals, they're rich people's second homes, they're being kept empty to keep their value artificially high. We didn't suddenly tear down all our houses and apartments a few years ago.
That's part of it. That isn't "all" of it. I live in Omaha Nebraska; we have a shortage of houses on the market. Are there Air BNBs in Omaha? Sure. A lot of them? Uhh.. No. This is Nebraska.
Most of the empty homes are in places that people are moving away from with stagnant economies and not much in the way of jobs.
reminds me of the phantom cities in china, massive clusters of high rise buildings ( built to prop up the Chinese construction boom) built on planned spots for cities that have neither the economy, nor the population in that area to use them.
Yeah, I don't think my lake house in the sticks of 😅 Texas a over 30 minute drive away from the next supermarket. It's what's keeping people in LA or sf living on the streets.
It’s a bit sad that this poster just smashed down a “fact” with no backing info in a video about misinformation. Wake up, Jeka8826.
A friend of mine shared a meme showing various newspapers claiming Canada, Antarctica, Israel, Africa, Australia were seeing global warming increasing at twice the rate of the global average. I was skeptical... I found the articles - they were all genuine articles from reasonably reputable sources. So then I put my brain to work and a light bulb went off. Land heats up much faster than water... and most of the world is ocean, therefore you'd expect land to be heating at more than twice the global rate.
In what way is that reputable? They are obviously trying to dramatize something that happens ever since land existed.
It's the same way when they report gun deaths but don't mention that they include suicides in their data...
"Reputable" or not, if they didn't have an agenda, they would be honest and straightforward.
To an extent, you're over-thinking it. Because some regions will be above average, others will be below; that's why the very concept of "average" exists.
If all differences under 2 degrees were marked as measurement uncertainty then this wouldn't show any difference at all. There is a river gauge in the river about a mile from my house. The river gauge broke and the national data shows my river flowing at a level of 1.5 feet when it is deeper than I have ever seen it. I kayak in the river and it is over my head in depth. This gauge has been broken for over a year. But it is an official government gauge and generates official data that will be in the archives for years to come. Garbage in garbage out. They used to have people come by and measure levels. Comparisons are made based on modern methods to past methods. Anything comparing over 20 years against each other should be considered suspect. Should we reduce pollution, of course. Should we allow progressives make any policy they want just because they yell climate change?
This simply is not how science is done. The standard error of data depends not just on effect size by on sample size. A difference in two data points that is not significant at one sample size can become significant at a larger sample size provided the measurement method is sensitive enough and confounding factors or noisy data don't swamp the signal. And if either of those things do happen, you end up with data that does not analyse statistically as significant, and scientific journals will generally not publish such fundings, unless a negative result is considered important in its own right.
The places mentioned are all either a large land mass or part of a large land mass. If you picked small islands surrounded by ocean, they're probably warming slower than "average". But the impact of sea level rise is going to be worst for small islands, so we're still left with: Nobody Wins.
For once, I wish for something to become a bigger trend on the internet. Publicly admitting to having believed in lies and misinterpreting things would do us a lot of good. Thank you for the video!
There's about 600 thousand homeless people in the US and about 16 million vacant homes. Not the issue he is spreading misinfo for his own false belief.
@@MrWhateverfits I do feel it is a bit more complicated, given that if all the vacant houses are in different locations than high rates of homelessness i could still see it being related to availability of houses but specifically locally
@MrWhateverfits not for the reason your statement implies. It's not a malicious falsehood, it's a problem we all fall to, including yourself just now, over simplification of the facts. How many of the 16 million homes are "actually available and usable"? How many are priced in a fair and equitable manner that people on the lower income bracket can afford? How many of these are then located close to where the people who need them can access them and still get to where they work?... Complex issues have Complex solutions, I hate over simplification as it's the most insidious misinformation, because it is truth, wrapped up in bias and prejudice.
@@MichaelOKCi think the point is that there is adequate material and labor available to have constructed all those currently existing houses.
I seriously disbelieve most people who own multiple houses have done enough important work to justify so much hoarding of resources. Too many incompetent and niche people being overpaid just for being charismatic. But you can't argue that the majority is fine with giving millions to sports, entertainers, and upper managers. So how to say anyone deserves a house if homeless are that way just for a lack of charisma (insanity, laziness, disability all lacking charisma to earn big paychecks)?
It takes not only a deep desire to know and spread the truth, but integrity and humility to do this, which is what you can expect from Hank. That's why I follow him.
It's good to find people you can trust, but always a good idea to double check for yourself, too.
THERE ARE! FOUR! LIES!
Aye captain
This video can go on as long as it has to. No one is coming to save you. All you have to do to escape is admit the truth.
How many lies are there?
By the end, I believe there were five lies
There are five lies
@@maxsalmon4980 I love this conversation.
The haircut looks GREAT!! I feel that people need to avoid adding to misinformation whenever possible. I've been through 1000+ hours of education, and after all of it, I've learned that you need to take everything*** with a grain of salt... (at least until you can corroborate that information with another independent source). There have been so many times over the years since my education, I found out I learned my professor's opinion vs. what is a proven fact. Sadly, I no longer just take things at face value, I look for proof whenever possible. Keep up the great work Hank!! I love the honesty and humility. Very HUMAN : )
Rule Number One: *DO NOT* use social media as a source of information. Do not let their explanations have a final say in your understanding. You should use those places to entertain yourselves, not educate yourselves.
Rule Number Two: always double tap.
I cannot emphasise enough how important I think a video like this is. Over the last few years there’s been a phenomenon of people holding beliefs, being presented information which shows that belief is incorrect and then doubling down hard on that belief anyway. For someone to hold up their hands and say ‘yes I was wrong, and this is why’ is just so important.
Believing something only to realise it wasn’t factual or true isn’t the end of the world, but learning from it and being honest about it crucial. Nicely done!
Notably, this was not really an example of being wrong about a belief, just being wrong about certain facts. I believe that in all four cases, Hank's underlying beliefs persisted. Not that they shouldn't have, it's just that this isn't an example of someone re-examining their beliefs.
It really important, I hope more people see this.
This is aggravated when certain "truths" or "questionings" correlate with political "sides" somewhat, which is weirdly common. I think being more careful with accuracy works as a preemptive patching of some vulnerabilities that can be exploited to arguments that use this kernel of truth of one's side misconception, to try to push for something more questionable. Such as people just attributing some exceptional storms randomly to climate change, when it could be that something like El Niño or La Niña are more well-established factors for the observed pattern -- which AGW deniers can then exploit to paint a picture/strawman of "climate alarmists" who don't know the basics of climatology and just assume everything is AGW. When unfortunately those attributing the anomalies to AGW at least are more correct in "ballpark," big-picture terms.
yeah like the COVID mandates, which exiled millions of innocent Americans from society because they refused to virtue signal about pretending to protect 80 year olds from the same risk of flu they've always faced. That's the big one, the people who were completely wrong went insane and hurt others very badly. Now that they caught up with reality and got tired of their filthy face rags, they want to move on and not apologize. But we're going to have to punish them totally for what they did.
NO!, SANTA IS REAL AND NO1 CAN COONVINCE ME OTHERWISE!
Oh you weren't talking about Santa??
That last one is so much of science in popular perception. Almost every time people think scientists as a group are "lying" it's because someone unqualified misinterpreted what scientists said and the people who are mad are just hearing that interpretation second or third hand.
When they said the vaccine would prevent transmission, that was a made up lie that did not even appear in any published studies. I could describe to you a dozen lies during the pandemic coming directly from corrupt scientists, they had a big opportunity for profit and political power, and so they lied. I don't call them scientists though since they are imposters.
gonna borrow this comment...frequently
Here, I'll give you an example of a lie. When the COVID mandates started they said the vaccine would reduce transmission (that was the fallback justification since it predictably didn't prevent illness). But at the time of the mandates, no studies had been done on transmission, and there was no reason (other than wishful thinking and arrogant fantasy) to think it would reduce transmission, and it in fact didn't. So the COVID mandates were a big intentional lie. Society can't move on until the midwits and imposters come back to reality.
Clickbait article 1: "eggs are bad for you! Study says eating more than three per week is harmful"
Clickbait article 2: "eggs are good for you! Study says up to three per week is perfectly safe"
People who don't read good: "goddamn scientists, why can't they make up their minds and stop contradicting themselves?"
This is def a dynamic, but there are also other important factors. Academics aren’t always incentivized to tell the truth or to not willfully misinterpret results, and while peer review can ameliorate misinterpretation it does almost nothing to protect against falsified data. Scientists actually do lie, and if recent scandals are any indication it’s quite widespread.
That said, many studies finding the same thing and academic consensus should normally be believed. But skepticism is healthy and warranted for anything you read
10:02 "and also to in a year that is going to be bad, uh, to touch as much grass as I possibly can."
I think Snoop Dog has a similar resolution.
The housing issue is certainly not solved by “build more housing”…2/3rds of new housing is single family, the problem is, it’s been like that, or more, since before WW2.. which means there isn’t appropriate housing available to the homeless.
If 1% of homeowners have third homes, that’s 860,000 homes, which is more than 650,000 homeless.
This is similar to the issue with auto manufactures, where most ppl need a shitbox to get them from A to B, but the buyers of “new” autos want $65k pickup trucks……so even if we’re ok with single family housing as the vast majority of new housing, the type of that single family is designed for ppl in at least the “middle class”, if not wealthier.
So the answer is Apartments? No. Because most wealth in the USA is attached to real-property ownership. So, the only way to escape poverty is ownership, but there’s little to no housing in that donut hole..some holes in some parts of the country wider then others…
My favorite quote is, “This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.” - Orson Scott Card
That's hiliarious considering what a giant piece of trash it's coming from.
“The worst person you know just made a great point.”
@@PaulMDavidson OSC really is, isn't he? Thanks for making this comment, so I don't have to.
Coming from Orson Scott Card, that's probably more of a self-criticism than he intended it to be.
Hence why I have very *FEW* beliefs, period. Why "believe" something when you can simply (most of the time) ding into the actual data and *KNOW* instead.
Two that I see quoted a lot are
"the 15 biggest ships pollute more than all the cars in the world"
and "100 companies are responsible for 71% of carbon emissions"
The first one is not true about carbon emissions, although that's what most everyone thinks of when they hear "pollution". The original paper only says that 15 ships emit more *sulfur dioxide* than all the cars. Sulfur dioxide is not a greenhouse gas, it is bad to breathe, but it only lasts about a day before it gets converted to sulfate, so it's only a local pollutant. The only reason those ships emitted so much is because we let them, because we thought sulfur dioxide didn't matter way out in the ocean. But since then we've changed the laws and the ships hardly emit any SO2 anymore. So the fact is both out of date, and doesn't say the thing most people claim it says.
The second one comes from a paper that counts all downstream emissions as belonging to the fossil fuel mining companies. So if an oil company drills some oil, sells it to a refiner, who sells it to a gas station, who sells it to me, and I burn it in my car, only the oil company counts as having any emissions. People quote this paper and then say "see, me driving my car doesn't matter", but your car *is* part of that 71%, and so is -all- the electricity you use at home. The paper doesn't say that 71% of the blame goes to those companies, because that's so much harder to determine. Whose fault is it when my car emits CO2? The oil company's fault? My fault? My boss's fault for not letting me work remote? My city's fault for not building more transit? The car company's fault for not making it more efficient? Yes, probably all of these.
I wanted to believe both of these because I do think big companies need to be held responsible for climate change, and putting the blame on individual consumers is problematic. But I don't like how the quotes get used to say something they don't actually say (probably not on purpose).
I’m confused where the “all the electricity you use at home” part came from? Yes, a lot of electricity is generated from fossil fuels, however lots is also generated from hydro, wind, solar, etc.
Its region dependent. My understanding is that fossil fuels still provide 50% or more of electricity worldwide, though obviously there are probably some areas where no power is fossil fuel based. My region is about 60% fossil fuels @@anyalpine
Thank you for writing this up! This was really great additional content
"Whose fault is it [...] ? Yes, probably all of these"
This sums up how I feel about so many things. We're all so divided over who is to blame, but the answer is (to varying degrees) all of us*, so we might as well each try to contribute as much to the solution as we can. And yes, voting is one way we can contribute to the solution (or the problem!), but it's only one way, and stopping at voting is a cop-out.
*"us" here means the population of the industrialized world. Tribal villages or foraging societies bear negligible blame, and as a bonus, tend to suffer the worst of the effects.
IIRC SO2 in the atmosphere cools the planet.
Maybe the opposite of a greenhouse gas.
Homelessness isn't a lack of homes. There's like 6 empty homes for every homeless person in the USA. It's because we live in an economic system that perpetuates artificial scarcity. No matter how many homes we build, they will go disproportionately to rich people. Poor people can't afford housing, no matter how many homes there are, because they price them for rich people. Capitalism is the problem, but if you want to avoid that whole issue, just say we need specifically more "affordable housing" or "low-income housing" or "section 8 housing" because all the money is in building monster homes for rich people so no matter how many homes are built it won't matter. This is a problem of capitalism, and the growing inequality and lack of compassion that it inevitably cultivates. @vlogbrothers I love how much you share info, and you care about how correct it is: fact check this and make a whole video about it, it'd be awesome! Artificial scarcity is brutal.
Intelligence begins with "I don't know", and it flourishes with "I was wrong." (Paraphrased from Lore's brother) th-cam.com/video/8eDYVtPwWiM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=BY4g-8amxW5a4umR
My mum is confused about me getting excited to share when I was wrong. I think I need to share this quote with her
Not exactly. Intelligence begins with curiosity, open-mindedness and judgment developed through careful comprehension of what's received and critical thinking about it. Intelligence isn't just a storage of information and gathering of more information but a matter of thoughtful exploration, sound judgment, receptivity to new ideas, and critical thinking skills that allow us to assess what we hear and read, eliminate what proves baseless or "wrong," etc.
Well I must be a god damn genius then because I don't know shit and I'm always wrong.
@@reignman30 Nah, it means you're still at the starting line and have yet to move on.
... and #reichWing theists try to scam us into thinking that scientists and especially EVOLUTIONARY scientists claim to be infallible... just like their gawd does. They try to religionize science. So they can ignore it like Hinduism or Jewish beliefs.
A big part of homelessness is that we just let corporations sit on homes.
Not only did you start with humility, but you then went on to educate us about why being wrong is ok as long as we are willing to learn. I can't stress enough that this is what we all need to move forward as a society. Your humor and joy about learning the facts behind the misinformation help to drive it home. Keep it up, we appreciate it!
Being wrong is ok, learning from it is better!
As long as you are willing to learn from a mistake, it will help you grow into a better person.
Unfortunately, this may not work much longer. It may be too late for us. Who can say which information is accurate. Was the video footage of Jane Goodall real? How can we find reality and know that we've found it?
I just respect you so much doing this. I will say, as a former small town journalist, regarding culpability for Scientific American, thinking two steps ahead of the reader is kind of their job. This was something I would harp on about until my editor wanted to gag me, but any graph, graphic or other standalone element has to be evaluated out of context for how people might take it, because people don't read articles, they cue off visuals.
true
A good example was the actual total tax graph that John used to show that he was misrepresenting tax data. That graph stopped at 50%, making it look like France was paying close to 100% of its income in taxes when, in reality, it was around 48%.
This reminds me of a series of assignments my 9th grade science teacher had us do called, "Misconceptions Killed." That one set of assignments has guarded me against blindly believing things and not questioning something once I believe it. Which isn't to say I am not subject to that, but I would be in far worse shape without that one year of "Misconceptions Killed" exercises.
My takeaway from this is, minimize or eliminate exposure to "social media". Well meaning people will do sloppy work and if most of them think like you do, they'll do massive poisoning to your mental well.
This is honestly so important to teach people. Don’t just blindly accept anything you briefly see, that happens to align with your beliefs. Be open to being wrong, and learn the *truth*
At the end of the day, the truth is what’s most important. No matter that your political association, personal beliefs, and emotions are, the truth is what anyone should stand on.
No one is perfect and we all get shit wrong, but it’s okay to be wrong, if you’re willing to accept you’re wrong sometimes, and change for the better ❤
To self evaluate something you already believe tobe true and discover is false is very difficult
Practice makes progress!
If we challenge ourselves the same way Hank does, the world will be a much more empathetic place.
And it's so important!
It's actually not, though. If you are interested in being correct when asserting something, then you will find yourself verifying (or attempting to) what you think to be true on a regular basis.
Recognizing that we are not infallible and are actually often incorrect or outdated in our thinking is the key; the rest comes naturally.
To admit mistake publicly is a sign of maturity.
It's something I wish more of us were better at
can’t believe he exploded at the end of this video
I do not get this joke!!
@@vlogbrothersshhhhhhh if this is the top comment it'll grow retention
It certainly made me watch to the end!
It was an obvious lie, but still funny nonetheless
@@vlogbrothers I don’t get it too bestie
I love this. I definitely fact-check a lot more stuff than the average person, but even I can fall into that dead-eyed stare where I.. uhh.. forget to remember to fact-check something, and then it passes through my hands to my great shame.
Oh, I love this because I sometimes feel like I'm "crazy" for being so self-analytical, for not only knowing things but insisting on knowing how I know them, for holding conflicting ideas in my head without feeling the need to believe either. I've never heard anybody else talk about this.
"science is not about being more right, it is about being less wrong!" is perhaps my favorite quote of all time.
we are wrong, we will always BE wrong (unless we know everything about everything) Our hope is to be less so as we develop, to understand our world more accurately to the best of our abilities. I did think about "holding contraditioning ideas but believing neither" yet I usually frame it as
"accepting ignorance is the first step to knowledge" and the flexibility to accept evidence without expecting perfection or absolutism.
This is a great example of how much time it takes to actually get to the truth. How people are used to spending 1 minute looking at something and accepting it or not. It takes work to be accurate. We also really suffer from confirmation bias.
This is not the first time Goodall has been the victim of false reporting. When the Gary Larson’s Far Side released a comic calling Goodall a Tramp her organization wrote a cease and desist notice. When Jane got back she loved the cartoon and made the lawyer drop the notice. Gary licensed the cartoon to Goodall’s organization to use as a fundraising and they became friends because of it.
That's funny! When I looked it up, I realized I saw that one before about a chimp finding a blonde hair on another chimp! The first one in the search also had a signature from J.G.
That's awesome! But now, thanks to this video, I'll need to fact check that story! 😂
I didn't catch the haircut until you mentioned it.
The haircut threw me off and I had to rewind and rewatch because it distracted me from the content, lmao! Also, the fact that it's curly now distracted me from the first three minutes! (I've missed a bunch of videos)
@@pistachoo. yes apparently chemo can make your hair grow back curly and/or change the color slightly for a year or so after treatment (he had cancer in case you missed it). Never knew that until Hank mentioned it. I think it suits him but I imagine its a weird feeling to see yourself with a different type of hair.
@@Steph-zo5zk yes, I knew about the cancer, and about the chemo effect but it's weird to see it "IRL" so to speak! It's a different colour, too! Wild!
@@pistachoo.I ran into him downtown a few days ago and it was surreal seeing it in person.
Vaguely early 2000 Timberlake perm-like
Homelessness is also a problem of non-residents owning homes. When there are homeowners that don’t use their home as a home, there are less homes for people who want to use them as homes.
It's not about right or wrong. It's about your beliefs changing with new information. Your willingness to accept you were wrong and desire to have the correct information even if you don't like it. I too fell for many things just like this. I try to be more thorough with what I believe because I will be more likely to repeat it. Self realization is a skill that many do not possession nor want to. Kudos for always being willing to improve. You have leveled up.
I was about to say, we’re a married, one income household with two children and our tax burden is DEFINITELY not only 8%!
Depends what taxes we're looking at... Unless that one income is over about 80k a year, chances are you pay $0 toward federal taxes used to actually fund the federal government, with all of the federal taxes you do pay going to social security and medicare taxes. On the other hand, if you include all the various levels of taxes, you likely spend nearly half your income on taxes.
@@johngaltline9933 No.
@@Threedog1963 I don't think half for the average person, but I 100% agree there are many taxes built into many things that go unnoticed.
And New Zealand is NOT 7%, our sales tax is 15% all on its own. our real tax burden is more like 50-60% or more when all the taxes are added up.
@@cricri7066you are not taking everything into account. Remember less than half the people in New Zealand are working taxpayers. Therefore more than half don’t pay income tax. Anyone receiving any kind of Government rebate counts as ‘negative’ tax. The wealthy pay almost no tax. There’s an old saying, if you pay tax, you need a new Accountant. Yes gst is 15% (I think), but anyone who owns a business can claim most of that back.
I’m no expert, but I suspect that average 7% may well be true.
My father talked to me about how everyone is prejudiced, including himself, and he was a Superior Court Judge. He said you just have to examine your thoughts to work through that, and make adjustments. That has stayed with me my whole life
Thanks for sharing that that’s pretty cool. I’m guessing he’s a great dad, and it sounds like a great judge too. I got to say how funny the image is of him deciding something at work, and then double checking himself for prejudice:
“wait, nope that’s racist” “dang it, no that’s xenophobic” 😂😂😂😂 it’s so endearing that he was fair on that level and it’s just so funny to imagine
This might be different in different countries. But from what I understand, homelessness isn't about lack of housing or affordable housing. It's people who for various reason are unable to manage their lives typically through addiction or serious mental health problems.
Build more homes sounds like an simple solution to a far more complex problem.
It matters a lot. If there is dishonesty, even if that misinformation is an accident, it gives the opposition side ammunition to say, "See they lied, this is (or is not) really a problem."
Honesty is very important everywhere.
So Hank, as a librarian, we often have conversations about misinformation and bias and even data (explaining it, finding it, working with researchers to curate adn store it, etc). But I don't think we have a grasp on how "the public" - especially on social media - use internformation and data. It's a qustion some library folks are looking into, but understanding the information needs of the public and also how information is used on social media are both very new conversations. This video is a fascinating example of how complex these topics are! Thank you
I love having other librarians pop up in the wild. :) One area I think is key is building stronger skills in information and media literacy from a very early age within the school curriculum. It should be developmentally appropriate to each age, but be a consistent element in our education throughout schooling - and include social media as a big component. When I was in school, the examples were often newspaper articles, but we need to make sure the curriculum addresses the relevant information landscape students are actually trying to navigate.
@@AVspectre Absolutely. For a bunch of years, people got the unsupported idea that kids from then on were all "digital natives" who just inherently knew how to use online resources appropriately, which was obviously never true.
people are very lazy. Sometimes, in politics, I see someone make a totally false rebuttal to a factual post, and the person after is like "fine but that person is still a poo poo head!" no, not fine. the rebutting statement was total bs and not at all true! you literally just took the word of your opponent, who also is some rando on the web! 😅😅😅😪😪😪@@rwalden00
Without addressing the root cause, nothing will improve and, people will keep complaining blindly 👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
I think I'm still a conservative, but since conservatives aren't really conservatives anymore, I think I've accidentally become a libertarian. I heard something about cookies? =)
I just wanted to add my support to the comment above. This is a crazy complex problem that's made worse because information brokers are incentivized towards drama and extremism in their reporting. It doesn't really matter which side you're on, you'll be getting your information sans context and often grossly misrepresented.
BTW Hank, I would challenge this idea that the Right is exposed to more fake news than the Left. I have an obvious bias, but I'm very confident that false information is far more agnostic than you suggest. I do think it manifests a little differently between the sides as the Right tends to get information that's just not true, where the Left tends to misrepresent data or actively work to suppress data that conflicts with their positions. The net result is relatively equal levels of ignorance, imo.
wow i was just looking at that rent/income graph just a few hours ago! i had seen it before but i looked more closely this time and went "wait a minute..." it caused me to reflect more on the fact that i don't question things that look right, even when they're surprising. how serendipitous!
All that changes from the graph is the y scale is wrong. You could make the exact same graph by scaling the y scale to emphasize the differences even with correct data.
@@kenhensch3996This is incorrect, the two trend lines are on two DIFFERENT y-scales and thus have no business being on the same chart. You could either graph income and rent prices both unadjusted for inflation or both adjusted for inflation (i.e. in real terms), but the graph did neither despite its claims.
Homelessness won't be solved by just building homes. I lived in Reno not too long ago, and during that time there was a boom in new construction, but also a corresponding rise in rent because corporations were buying up all the new housing to rent out.
I think we should be talking about cost of living in terms if hours, considering 8 is still considered a day's work and 40 full time (availability of full time jobs being not necessarily existent aside...), and we're not getting more hours in the day.
A few years ago there was a little chat about how a bean cheese snack burrito inflated, but if you calculated by minimum wage, there were only a few cents more difference.
Granted, it'd be harder to calculate off takehome, since taxes (and state minimum along with state cost of living) vary and aren't accounted for. But more recently there's a tweet about how in the 80's you could buy 6 big macs with the full minimum. Now those macs are smaller and your hour of work is only 90% of the price for 1, never mind covering the sales tax or the loss on income tax.
Jonathan Haidt said it best. He described people as "born lawyers". We don't use our cognitive abilities to come to rational conclusions but instead use our brainpower to JUSTIFY our belief in the things we already want to be believe. He says we ask ourselves two questions:
1) When a statement aligns with what we already want to believe, we ask "CAN I believe it?" meaning we'll take the tiniest bit of sorta kinda circumstantial evidence and say "Aha! Confirmed! Case Closed!"
2) When a statement confronts us with something we do NOT want to believe, we ask "MUST I believe it?" meaning we'll look for any scrap or ghostly hint of evidence that the statement is false and cling to it for dear life.
see also motivated reasoning.
@regolith1350 , Remind me which of Haidt's books this is in? I read the first two some time ago but haven't read the Anxious Generation yet. I want to share this quote with someone and would like to be able to attribute it.
Thank you for sharing this. There's so much unsettling truth to it.
@@amynrob621 It's been a long time since I first heard it, and can't pinpoint it to a particular book. I clearly remember hearing him discuss the concept in interviews & presentations so you might find a clip on TH-cam of him talking about it. Sorry I can't be more specific.
how dare you accuse me of being a lawyer, I'll sue you for that
So refreshing to see a trusted source say they believe what their bias presents, but check that with which they disagree. Then turn around and say they were deceived by their bias, and gracefully allow themselves to be corrected. And then make a frenetic TH-cam video that is awesome. DFTBA EVERY DAY
I've been homeless. It is NOT a problem of a lack of homes.
So... what do you see the issue as?
This might not be the most effective platform but Get the word out as best you can and maybe there can be more effective efforts to help people who experience homelessness.
I don't remember where I heard it; but years ago someone told be that I should not only be skeptical of people telling me something I don't believe, I should be even more skeptical of people telling me something I do believe
You touched upon a good point, that we should think “would I be comfortable sharing this without fact checking” I think have peer groups that keep us ‘in check’ is one solution to this.
That's how the scientific community has done it for hundreds of years.
You just have to be vigilant that the peer group doesn't turn into an echo chamber.
Fantastic video.
Always weird but awesome when one of your favourite TH-camrs comments on another of your favourite TH-camrs...
Just rewatched a classic of yours right before this: the hypoxia video with Don Pettit. Keep on making the world a little bit better everyday through your work!
i agree, however for the intro, its not only construction of houses, but mainly creating affordable housing, there is loads of empty real estate
@@memememe908Australian here. Some of the houses and flats "available and affordable" are actually dangerous and unlivable. For many reasons including , no safe electricity, missing flooring, all plumbing severely damaged, roof parts missing no heating and so on and on.
"Hear are 4 lies that I believed because they aligned with my expectations and why I was wrong."
"Let me finish with a graph that I accept as true because it aligns with my expectations."
C'mon man.
I keep hearing this claim that the problem of affordable housing is because there are too few houses being built. But the decade in which the largest number of homes were built in the US was 2000 to 2010. And the prices (in)famously skyrocketed, because they were being bought by a huge speculative market.
If you want to cling to market oriented arguments on housing, it should be "we should build more houses than private equity, hedge funds and huge corporations can buy in order to create portfolios to extract huge rents from people". Sure, that will create affordable housing, but that's obviously impossible.
This is probably one of the most important videos you’ve put out. We can’t begin to solve problems effectively without first assessing these problems truthfully.
It's like how arguments/debates are destined to go nowhere unless the people involved agree on the definitions of what they're arguing about
I hear arguments for fighting confirmation bias all the time as I'm in a psychology undergrad program, but hearing the process from start to finish from a source I trust is impactful. Thanks for this, especially the reshoot. Correcting ourselves is worth the effort.
Lmao. College students literally think they know everything and do nothing but lecture the rest of us. And you can't even do basic math.
Keep your mouth shut.
homelessness is not a problem of a lack of homes, it's a problem of landlords and banks who own empty homes.
"Don't just believe the things you see on the Internet."
-Abraham Lincoln, The Art Of War
I worked closely with the homeless for years. I've been homeless myself. My family helped get many off the streets, off drugs, into jobs and into housing. And we fed 100's more every weekend sending them away with enough for the week. And having tackled this issue from every angle. I can tell you with absolute certainty that homelessness is not a housing problem. That narrative is what allows governing bodies to get away with awarding people who have them in their pocket with development and redevelopment contracts that ultimately help almost none of the people they were intended to.
Even taking the most cursory numbers it simply doesn't add up. Ignoring homes built before 1975 (of which there are millions but it's hard to quantify an exact number), there is 1 home for every 2.3 people. Considering that most housing is between single family occupancy (3-5) and single occupancy unit complexes (which is actually 1-2 per). There is more than enough living space. Even after you account for derelict dwellings you have to consider functional housing which isn't accounted for fully. Such as non-subdivided ADU's, RV's, and places not zoned as residential being used residentially. Like an old industrial building being turned into college dormitories without rezoning or changes in use on unrestricted land.
Homelessness is a multifaceted issue. Building a house doesn't help the guy who will strip it for copper to pay for a habit. It doesn't help the woman who won't sleep inside because bees live in the walls. And most of the people who it could actually help will never see the inside of one because of the red tape that stands between them and it. People who need housing the most often do not meet housing program requirements. For one thing they have no way of identifying themselves officially much of the time. Birth certificates, ID's Driver's license. Hell even a library card. For a lot of them that was all lost, expired or stolen years ago. And to renew most of it...to get the ball rolling on getting into housing, you know what you need? Proof of physical address.
On top of all that they often have to find a way with no money, poor hygiene and physical appearance to get from a to b several times a day to get things regarding all that done. They have to do that with all their worldly possessions to. because if they leave it somewhere. They'll be lucky if it's there when they get back. So you better have a buddy when you're homeless. Another homeless person who will watch your shit while you do things if you watch theirs while they do. And that relationship is based off mutual benefit. Once one of you takes too long or is getting something not being shared equally and it's known (like the possibility of one of you getting housing and the other not). That relationship and your only thing resembling a safety net is dissolved. Then you have to explain yourself to a lot of people on the street. Because if you flake or do anything that's perceived as trying to do better for yourself without raising the position of those around you as well, you will be excluded from a lot of circles.
You're only going to find 1 person in a 100 who even meets whatever parameters were stipulated by those who actually made "free" housing happen (the program that develops out of the idea will not resemble the initial concept once it's made it's way through the bureaucratic grinder). And maybe every 4 of those people you'll get 1 to go along with it. And if their lucky. That system setup to "help" them won't chew them up and spit them out. Putting them in a worse position than they were before.
It's easy to say we just need more houses, problem solves, and dust your hands off. But that doesn't even dig in the direction of the root of the problem. And that's why housing first has never put a dent in this issue. Because it's not a housing problem it's an economic classism problem. So much so that people of too high a station in life relative to the on the ground issue don't even understand the problem and are therefore incapable of helping it.
you said it. this country is full of empty homes that are inaccessible to the people who need them
Thank you for taking the time to say all of this.
wonderful comment. thanks for sharing
This! Homelessness is going up here in Las Vegas, and it's not a lack of housing it's literally rent, and owning a home is too expensive. 36,000 WORKING people were evicted last year, and we have 6,000 evicted just this year. Going and asking the courts to put ahold on the evictions ultimately doesn't help because they give them 30 days to pay back what they owe. They couldn't pay the price hike to begin with, and now you expect them to pay that back to get an eviction off their record AND find a new place to live, when that was the only place they could afford before the price hike?! We have entire apartment buildings that are empty, new houses that can't be sold, and forget about getting housing help. The people in power have worked so hard to drag affordable housing through the mud that the people vote against building any, and landlords would rather have properties empty than take a government insensitive to make their properties more affordable. They also would rather pump money into Catholic Charieties than take on the responsibility of helping people! We have so many empty hotels and motels that it wouldn't be hard to convert them into housing, but they let them sit and rot.
Thanks for your insight, it makes a ton of sense
I'm obsessed with this video. In my social psych seminar, we've been talking a lot recently about these types of biases and how we can avoid them and, more than that, how HARD it is to avoid them. Everyone makes them. No one likes to think that they do. This is a great example of how to admit to our biases and learn from them.
I think if more people just understood this aspect of humans they'd be more empathetic and patient with others. I don't think most people really understand how bad it is, so to say how easy it is for an individual to get the wrong idea.
Thank you SO SO SO much for this video. Fact checking is something I'm having to argue the necessity of, plead with people to do, point out to people the importance of, etc. - all the time! So I'm very careful to fact check my own biases. But, as you point out, not always. It's easy to make assumptions about information, especially when one thinks they've arrived at that information from a valid and honest journey to it.
Homelessness is not just a problem of how many homes there are, it's how those homes are regulated and how many people can own multiple homes without any restrictions.
I once went to Margate, a beach town in New Jersey, in March.
There was a whole city worth of big houses ALLL EMPTY. EXCEPT FOR THREE MONTHS IN SUMMER.
We can build millions of homes but if none of them fall into the hands of working class and lower middle class people, the housing+rent crisis will persist.
One psrt that really resonated with me was when you said you only thought to check a fact after imparting the information to someone else. I think, much like learning, sometimes only when you explain to other people do things really click in your brain and that can solidify your understanding of the subject matter, or in this case make you doubt and need to confirm the information. I have also done this too many times, and often immediately said, "hang on, let me check that!" As it sounds weirder or less true when spoken out loud somehow than when it just nestles in your brain, especially when its part of any preconceived personal biases. Great video, always worth reminding people to be open to checking facts with proper institutions and reliable sources. (ie, not some mad uncle on Facebook).
You denigrate a source that may be viable. Source bias can be just as bad as not being fully informed. If a mad uncle says it's sunny out, many will say "ignore him, my TV hasn't told me it's true". I can't understand that type of thinking. Take in everything and do a proper deep critical assessment of the information.
As a math instructor, I completely agree. I almost wish I could take my Masters again. I understand concepts now much more clearly than I did then. Simple things that I just regurgitated back then make much more sense. Things that would have made everything else make more sense.
@@laidbackbeauif it makes you feel any better: I'm soon to matriculate with an NA on Development Studies and... everything makes me angry nowadays. People just love acting against theirs and others' best interest *at all times* no matter what.
Thank you for making this video. I recently came to my own “can’t believe I believe these lies” moment and I felt so ashamed. Not only had I just believed those stories as facts but also I had spread them afterwards. I feel so seen by your video Hank. Thank you for helping me come to terms with the fact that everyone can be wrong, it doesn’t make you any less smart. We just have to be more vigilant.
It makes me more empathetic, when someone is wrong. I haven't called anyone the standbys for a long time because we all have our weakness, humanity's strength is the way we can balance each others' strengths and weaknesses). (You know how everyone can't wait to send clown emoji or call someone stupid in creative ways)
There's SO much information out there, sadly. Even the smartest and better resourced among us can be taxed for time to fact check EVERY single claim.
And these types of videos are so important for everyone. One, to remind us we don't always understand, remember, or translate something accurately and all have potential for bias, and b) to let the other side know that we understand this is a failing of all humans, and not just one side. Even of one side is a lot more likely to have it than the other
Thank you for being brave, and hopefully help us to be brave and admit when we're wrong, or at least reexamine our closely held beliefs every so often
As for the question of "does it really matter if it leads to people making the correct choices with that information", I would say yes, because being able to be truthful with what we want is a huge advantage to our side of things. The fact that academia is on our side is a HUGE boon to us. If people start doubting our info because they've been lied to before, that just doesn't help us.
@1:55 homelessness is a problem due to a lack of *available* homes. This is also sometimes due to ownership structures.
Yeah, there are way more empty homes in the USA than there are homeless people.
But be aware that if the number of vacant homes is below 5%, there isn't much that legislation can do to unlock this (because the vacancy is temporary, or unlivable, or whatever). In that case, you just have to build more homes.
It's due to a lack of AFFORDABLE homes. We could house every unhoused person in the country right now many times over if it were just an issue of available properties.
Stop allowing corporations to own homes! Homes are for people!
There are plenty of vacant houses around me because goldman sachs bought them as investments and refuses to make them livable, or sell them for a fair price. We don't need more homes, we need less corporate ownership.
The easiest solution I can think of: reduce the number of rented residential properties a person can own down to something like 5 and prevent corporations from owning rental properties outright.
It’s great that you’ve taken stock. I started actively fact checking as I watch anything, “trusted source” or not, a few years ago. Especially if someone is quoted or telling me what someone said in a speech or whatever I’ll just look up the source material and watch it for myself. Sins of omission are everywhere and there’s so much twisting of facts and findings. “A new study shows” is treated as if all “studies” are on par with one another and the newest one just cancels out everything that came before it. If I’m talking with someone and I heard something that contradicts what they’re saying but I haven’t looked into it I’ll tell them exactly that rather than run the risk of spreading falsehoods.
It's not just a matter of lack of housing. It *is* a matter of pricing. My take-home is almost 3k per month. My rent for myself and my son? $1150. There are rental properties going empty because people simply cannot afford them.
I'm a strong Believer and follower of God, and I have to guard against this all the time in my own thinking!
I was a hold out on many things including evolution and climate change.
What I discovered is that by not being open minded about the world around me, I had put my image of God in a very small box. Once I accepted proven science, I had to accept that God was (as I thought I believed) all powerful and can make creation any damn way S/He pleased. God is outside of time - and that is a revelation. I had to accept that maybe, despite going to Bible College, I didn't know everything about the Bible, nor did my 'religious' instructors, who taught me what they believed was true, but was handed down to them.
It is actually very freeing to unbind your mind from traditions and allow God to be God. I find it exciting to learn of new discoveries, new clues, to how our world developed because I'm not worried and defensive that they are going to somehow take credit away from God. LOL
All we have to do is look at the track record of religious types, so worried that God's honor will be slighted that you have to pry their hold from their pet beliefs one excruciating finger at a time. (No, the earth is not the center of our solar system!)
It puts us in the place of a Chihuahua trying to defend a tiger. 🤣
I'mma need that TikTok graph with both either adjusted for insulation or both not.
Edit: INFLATION 😂
They track pretty closely together, search "Mother Jones Rent vs Income"
I would assume that better insulated homes are more expensive than less insulated /j /lh
I hate it when tiktok graphs let water in
@@Martcapt me too 😕
@@Idefilms I can attest that poorly insulated homes are more expensive to live in.
And that rental property landlords have no financial interest in insulation beyond making sure pipes don't freeze in the walls.
I didn't notice the haircut change until he mentioned it and then I had to rewind a little and see how big of a difference I had just overlooked.
It would've been funny if he lied about getting a haircut and then you had to go back and check that it's false.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721this is the way.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Three-dimensional chess haircut
This video would be too meta!! My life is a lie!!
I'm usually the last to notice haircuts and such, but I found myself curiously examining Hank's hair somewhere between 5:47 and 7:41 without knowing _why_ my eyes were drawn to it.
So I'm glad he mentioned the haircut - it explained why my brain was suddenly interested in his hair 😹
My best friend was homeless for several years while he dealt with a drug addiction. He said that homeless people travel to areas that have more money. That suggests that higher rent prices and homeless rates might just be a correlation instead of causation. It makes sense that people who want people to give them money for doing nothing would seek out areas where people have more surplus money. And higher rents is an indication of a market that has enough money to bear it because there's more money there.
Homelessness is NOT a result of not enough homes. There are MILLIONS of homes in the United States that are uninhabited, more than there are homeless people.
You know that people don't want to live in Detroit and other such places, where there are available houses? If you look up the statistics for rich, successful regions, there IS a problem with not enough housing
One of the things I discuss with students I teach at the High School level is the burden of proof, with whom does the burden of proof lie. And what I teach, biased though it may be, is that the burden of proof is on the speaker. Whomever is presenting the argument should, 100%, be responsible for the the fact checking, the proof, AND evidence of the contrary. In the psat, I've heard arguments that claim we should check up to 3 sources to verify claims we hear; but in today's internet age, we need to check 5 or more. Considering the wealth of sources, it is very ironic and mixed-up that we have to check so much more.
I agree with you except for the part where I don't agree with you lol. Let me explain. Of course the speaker is responsible for what they say and must do their due diligence, and if they are lying, then it is 100% on them morally and it is not your fault you were lied to. However, as individuals, we must also be responsible for what enters and makes a home in our brains. We cannot merely be passive receptacles of knowledge (Which I don't think you are advocating for) but must curate the library of our minds as best we can.
So Morally I agree with you, the person presenting the information is 100% responsible for the quality of said information, but practically I disagree when it comes to listening to others speak.
I love the idea of “having an alliance to the truth”. The hard part is accepting truth as it is, and not the truth as you want it to be. Hank, thank you for being an example to us all.
I think having an alliance to the truth has always been important, but rarely so important as it's going to be this year. There's already so much misinformation flying around (from everyone, as Hank points out) and being able to question not only your opposition's points but your own preconceptions of how "the truth" looks is going to be what gets us through it.
I don't actually, I think trying to adhere to the truth puts you in an extremely vulnerable position of trying to decide whether things are true or false and that being the only thing that matters. In many ways the truth does not matter, I don't care what you think of me, if you have false perceptions. But when we talk I want you to be nice to me and I nice to you. Truth is not a social value, it's a way for people who cannot be virtuous to represent their subjective views with reason... I don't think i explained that perfectly but you get the point. Humans don't operate on truth. We operate. We operate on what we feel like operating in the moment.
@@connorking984 I understand why you feel this way and that it may not be your experience, but it is possible to be nice and tell the truth at the same time. Finding the truth, even if it means questioning your own beliefs, is valuable...I would even say it's the only way we can achieve a common understanding. But yes, I'm with you on being nice. I think you can do both.
As a data analyst this was a good reminder of "confirmation bias". I also use the Billion Dollar Disaster charts and map, but only to have a snapshot of weather that impacted shipments the previous year. I also use the monthly charts that say if the weather is colder or hotter than normal. It has an impact on how much outerwear or t-shirts the apparel industry sells.
1:42 building more homes doesn't work when a developer buys an old house for $300,000 and builds five $800,000 homes in its place.
It's the exact same unaffordability problem.
There are also, IIRC, around 6 empty houses for every houseless person in the US. Which in and of itself is not a solution, as asking people to up and move to where the empty house is without a job and a community of family and friends to support them isn't going to work for everyone.
Part of the reason is that massive companies buy up housing stock and don't rent it out (renting in general is contributing to houselessness) in order to manipulate the price of the houses that they want to sell. It's like gentrification without actually rebuilding the property.
People misrepresenting research on social media and in news articles happens all the freaking time, it's maddening.
Research papers misrepresenting other papers also happens all the time.
misrepresent due to misunderstanding or due to hidden agenda?
let's not jump to conclusions either way!
@@alexandergutfeldt1144 ya idk why the mistakes are in the papers I read. It's not like I met the people who wrote them. But there's definitely a lot of mistakes based on assumptions and biases. Of course, this could be sampling bias as well because I was studying sociology and criminology at the time. So, there could be more mistakes and misrepresentations in those papers than others. I don't know and I'm not planning on reading every paper that was ever published to find out. Lol
The fact that I didn't notice the haircut change until he mentioned it was the craziest part of the video honestly
Lie #5 is actually at 1:46 "Homelessness is a problem of a lack of homes". That's too simplistic.
If homes are privately owned, they may sit vacant (known as land banking), or be rented out at high prices for tourism etc. Just ask anyone from a popular tourist area (esp. in Europe) who has been pushed out due to high rents. The problem is policies allowing housing to be used as a profit-making vehicle. The key is more *non-profit* housing: public housing or co-operative housing.
We also need better social supports for those who have been homeless. Simply putting someone who has been sleeping rough (under a bridge or in tent communities) into an apartment doesn't always last as they can feel guilt, isolation and loneliness.
Homelessness isnt a lack of empty homes, its a lack of available homes. In london more than enough homes are present, theyre just held empty by corporations or investors. Disincentivizing empty home ownership (or even, banning corporations from owning homes for more than 12 months) would go a long way to rectify things
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Sad Bois at the dynasty typewriter when?
Without addressing the root cause, nothing will improve and, people will keep complaining blindly 👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
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Thanks so much for sharing this. The way I've thought about it for years is we need to be taught to be better evaluators of information rather than just consumers of it. I taught my kids a little doubt goes a long way, always be willing to think you have it wrong and try to understand what's really going on. Same with folks I disagree with, I don't ask them to change their minds, I ask them to be skeptical and look for the evidence that supports what they want to believe. Only YOU can prevent confirmation bias! :)
Interesting fact - If you fill up Texas with people with the same population per sq-mile as Manhattan, the entire worlds population would fit. It is easy math.
I think it is so important to talk about how easy it is for inaccurate information to make its way into our brains, even for those of us who consider ourselves conscious of how much wrong information is out there. I also really appreciate you being honest about bias, and it will certainly make me try and fact check more often before I share information that may have been misconstrued or edited to appear a certain way (ie. Always read the fine print on statistics and graphs as often they are done in very narrow margins so the data aligns with expectation).
This reminds me of the phrase, “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Funny, because the quote is often attributed to Mark Twain, though Google tells me there's no evidence of this. He did, however, state in his autobiography, "How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!" Your video is a great reminder that none of us are immune to lies and propaganda, and that we'd do better to verify our sources and beliefs with an open mind.
Who on gods green earth would accept data, knowledge, information, presented to them at face value? If someone told me the sky was blue, i'd still double check myself.
I live in a city in the UK, where we have a homeless population of around 3000, and over 5000 empty homes. The easiest way to fix the homelessness crisis and the rent surge is to stop for profit companies from owning homes.
"I would use this ring from a desire to do good... But through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine."
The metaphore is far from perfect but I cant help but feel like hank is gandalf and twitter(or social media) is the one ring. You can try to use it to spread the truth but ultimately the algorithm doesnt care and even truths slowly turn into lies online.
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Gods help us if Twitter (or X, or whatever) is the One Ring. Because it's already in the hands of Sauron.
Good stuff, and thanks. I deeply respect this.
What helped me in this area is adopting the following guidelines, and specifically believing they are true from the evidence:
1) Anything other people tell me is a hypothesis.
2) If the validity of the hypothesis is important I must evaluate it first by reviewing all available evidence for and against the hypothesis. As a starting point, what are people supporting it claiming and what are people opposing it claiming?
3) Everything claimed is wrong at some level of detail. It's important to understand what details are important or not when applying a claim to a situation. A half-truth is fine if the true part is what matters, but not if the untrue part matters.
4) I am an "other people" to everybody else, so I should also expect others to scrutinize what I claim in the same way.
3 is a big point on its own, also the cause of a lot of "well actually..." as shown in this very video
#3 is extremely dangerous. It lays a foundation for cherry picking truth based on what you feel matters. "Well, this study is a half truth, but it supports the side of some controversial subject I think is true, so the truth is what matters." No.
@@Ranstone Maybe "wrong" is not the right word, but not fully correct, or correct from one context or perspective but missing something significant at another. Like "lies told to children", true enough at one level, but also thoroughly missing necessary information at another.
Yes, study one did find A, and it may be true, but it doesn't support the conclusion they think it does and is missing information from study two that gives a fuller understanding of the issue and context that shows how study one can be misunderstood or construed.
At least that was my understanding/thinking.
You are not wrong but I have a much simpler approach.
Titles of information often don't actually display what the title says it does. My approach is simple:
Question Everything. :)
If someone says, "here, this graph shows the tax burden of individuals across different nations", I will say, 'does it? How does it do that? The values are % Share of GDP. That doesn't look like a personal tax burden measurement. That's an internal number relating to a country's taxed vs non-taxed industries, and I'm sure a lot of other factors too.'
Essentially reading the full information, the details, is often where the 'ruse' lies. Maybe along the lines of your half-truths.
@@nowandrew4442 I like the idea of 'lonely numbers' from the book 'Factfulness'. Once I read it, I noticed that articles often rely on one attention-grabbing number that don't tell the whole story. “If you are offered one number, always ask for at least one more. Something to compare it with. Be especially careful about big numbers.”
I think this is a good topic to address. Especially at times when people already feel strongly divided it's important to reduce the volume of misinformation being spread. Whatever group it may be, a bad apple spreading lies and half truths might think they are "owning the x" but they're just making their group look untrustworthy.
"I had no reason to question" is a very unscientific and very human perspective to carry. Love the honesty in this video, mate.
Loved the coversation about the data from NOAA! As an emergency manager working primarily in mitigation and preparedness it's actually really important to see how data in relation to disasters is talked about and understood!
Homelessness also happens when the job market doesn't give you enough to afford the over priced housing, such as in NY, in both rent and ownership. Because there is a ton of apartments here priced insanely.
I used to believe that the gender pay gap was real until you see that when you adjust for personal choices, the gap disappears
Could there not be a broader cultural influence involved? Surely there are more components to a person’s life than just the choices they make themselves.
This is such a massive problem online. I was almost duped yesterday by a headline declaring that a local politician on the other side of the political spectrum said something absurd and outrageous. The only reason I didn't fall for it was because the image of the headline contained a few sentences from the body of the article that sounded kind of weird, and reading more of the article and watching the original statement made it clear that the statement was taken out of context. But if I had only read that headline, I would still believe that this politician said that absurd thing.
This is what they were always on about in all those media literacy classes! You're setting such a great example, showing that absolutely no one is immune to falling into the comfortable trap of our own biases