I caused people more pain. And they preferred it.

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  • @adayah2933
    @adayah2933 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +15219

    **Ends with an annoying ad**
    PS I was slightly disconcerted by how many folks didn't notice that my comment was meant to be facetious. Of course I don't deny Derek the right to place sponsorship messages alongside his amazing content! However, doing so at the end of this particular video made me smile at the irony and I wanted to make you guys smile as well. I am glad for the majority of you who did - you are amazing. Cheers!

    • @hypnoticlizard9693
      @hypnoticlizard9693 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +713

      Or he knows that you wont watch the ad/its worth watching anyway so the video already ended. Sponsor got done dirty.

    • @gizanked
      @gizanked 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +563

      ​@@hypnoticlizard9693pretty sure this is a standard practice on his videos. I'm sure the sponsor knew about it before coming to an agreement.

    • @Rex-xj4dj
      @Rex-xj4dj 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +81

      The actual pain

    • @denatle
      @denatle 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +125

      Sponsorblock

    • @boonjabby
      @boonjabby 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +22

      Brilliant.

  • @thomasmuller8118
    @thomasmuller8118 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +16883

    "End it with something pleasant"
    Proceeds to end the video with a sponsor message

    • @NitrogenVM
      @NitrogenVM 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +308

      💀

    • @HydrantRooster
      @HydrantRooster 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +582

      At least he didn't show "Man being forcibly drowned". 5:37

    • @littledotinthespace
      @littledotinthespace 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +222

      Lol 😂
      For me, the video ends before the add and while the add plays I read the comments

    • @gm2407
      @gm2407 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +124

      At least he didn't show the colonoscopy.

    • @yegorchernyshov9202
      @yegorchernyshov9202 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +99

      sponsorblock 🤯

  • @MacSmiley
    @MacSmiley 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1139

    “Put your right hand in the box.”
    “What’s in the box?”
    “Pain.”

    • @olpizl
      @olpizl 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +22

      Reminds me of „The Dune“

    • @CatMowpurr
      @CatMowpurr 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      @@olpizl ​ Reminds me of the barber of seville overture, which is playing in the background

    • @jimmyzhao2673
      @jimmyzhao2673 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      ah ha !! Good one.

    • @NickRoman
      @NickRoman 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      Derek whips out the Gom Jabbar

    • @D3nn1s
      @D3nn1s 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      ​@@olpizlpretty sure thazs because he meant it as a reference ;)

  • @dblevins343
    @dblevins343 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +197

    Its why you always celebrate finishing a difficult task/bad experience with something you enjoy. It makes the whole experience better.

    • @Devilofdoom
      @Devilofdoom 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      Another interesting point is that working towards something, like maybe learning a song. The reward at the end is that you now know a new song, and you look back fondly on the process of learning it. Even though in reality, it was probably pretty tedious. This pushes us to learn more.
      This is likely the evolutionary reason as to why the mind works like this. Because it drives motivation. Which is ultimately what put us at the top of the food chain.
      The other thing I noted from this video was the idea that the mind takes snapshots, rather than recording the whole experience. While true to a point, I think what comes in snapshots is the ability to remember without a reference. Generally if you specifically ask someone if they remembered any particular point of an experience they will be able to. Even if the memory does not trigger when you simply ask what they remember from the experience as a whole.

    • @Vipce
      @Vipce 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Devilofdoom his how i felt when learning the rubiks cube

  • @whoeveriam0iam14222
    @whoeveriam0iam14222 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2312

    Ending with that cute dog was so smart. Some TH-camrs end their videos with an annoying ad so the viewers forget they ever saw that dog

    • @Vousie
      @Vousie 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +57

      I see what you did there. 😉 And yup. Very stupid on his part to *still* put the ad at the end...

    • @thelocalshoop
      @thelocalshoop 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +72

      @@Vousie I think he was making a joke at that point haha

    • @-Timur1214
      @-Timur1214 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      @@thelocalshoop doesnt seem like it, its just a prerecorded ad bro

    • @jeebusk
      @jeebusk 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      well he did thank you for watching

    • @cyclopropinon5143
      @cyclopropinon5143 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      peak irony. i love it

  • @julioaurelio
    @julioaurelio 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2815

    “Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”
    - Jim Rohn

    • @xeryues
      @xeryues 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +94

      what about my existential pain?

    • @GrantGazi
      @GrantGazi 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +142

      I think that’s interesting, though what is meant by discipline can differ. For example, I lead something of an easy life. there are probably people who would look at me and say some variation of unmotivated or lazy. But I keep up on rent, laundry, dishes, hygiene. To me that’s discipline.
      I’m not much for hard work but I work hard enough to live the life I want.
      I believe if I pushed myself harder, disciplined myself more, I would lose a serenity that I value deeply.

    • @parsakakhani9888
      @parsakakhani9888 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      wow! what an impressive sentence!

    • @EverydayNormieMadafacka
      @EverydayNormieMadafacka 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@xeryuesyou don’t get to chose that one.

    • @4creax
      @4creax 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +29

      @@xeryues From my experience and those around me, existential pain is a pain of regret masked by very strong mental defense mechanisms. And overcoming that is a long process.

  • @c.jishnu378
    @c.jishnu378 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +148

    Honestly, ending with an ad pays less than a mid-roll ad, so Veritasium is actually sacrificing it's revenue for us.

    • @Lo-Delfi
      @Lo-Delfi 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I got a mid roll ad, too.

    • @c.jishnu378
      @c.jishnu378 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      @@Lo-Delfi I am talking about the sponsor.

    • @SuperVratik
      @SuperVratik 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Cfbr

  • @thomaskaldahl196
    @thomaskaldahl196 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    "Berry" has multiple definitions, one of which is the botanist's definition, the other is the colloquial definition. The latter includes strawberries and excludes eggplants.

    • @alexket8403
      @alexket8403 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      "Vegetable" is also not a botanical word at all. Vegetable is a culinary term, and it used to mean all parts of plants, such as stems, leaves, fruit, seeds, etc. Now we're a bit more picky about what is a vegetable, but it's still not a botanical term lol

    • @agalah408
      @agalah408 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      How would you classify a Hale Berry?

    • @thomaskaldahl196
      @thomaskaldahl196 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@agalah408 your mom 😎

  • @Lueluekopter
    @Lueluekopter 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +4987

    "The best way to close a TH-cam video is with a wholesome message, so here's a cute dog playing with flowers" - Proceeds to follow the cute dog with an ad 😅

    • @xKumei
      @xKumei 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +143

      I wonder if that means that people generally prefer watching youtube videos with ad reads in the middle compared to them at the end?

    • @RonixEnclave
      @RonixEnclave 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

      The real question is do more upvotes on a reply leave a stronger impression on a person or the last comment?

    • @griffinbastion
      @griffinbastion 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +54

      ​@@xKumeiThere is no reason to continue watching at the end

    • @jellyg0at9
      @jellyg0at9 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +54

      Bro he just gave you permission to skip watching the ad section. Like, the video is over now, this is clearly the after-the-video portion of the upload.

    • @skuerzard8498
      @skuerzard8498 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jellyg0at9 he is expecting us to have Sponsorblock addon

  • @randomperson1418
    @randomperson1418 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1156

    I didn't expect 14C water to be cold enough to hurt, it seems okay in my head

    • @theral056
      @theral056 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +235

      I'm equally confused by this. I guess I'm just accustomed to cold? I shower cold and wash hands cold, etc. As long as it's not freezing I also have my window next to me open. Dunno, seemed quite mundane to put a hand in 14C water for a minute. Might have to actually try it to figure out what this is about lol.

    • @pourplecat
      @pourplecat 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +195

      I think water temperature is colder than air temperature, its not like sticking your hand in 14 C air and water is the same.
      Edit: Feels colder, not is colder

    • @junipermeisje6300
      @junipermeisje6300 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +54

      It took me 12 minutes of wondering the same thing, until I realised it’s degrees Fahrenheit…

    • @randomperson1418
      @randomperson1418 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +402

      @@junipermeisje6300 I don't think it is, the digital readout says C

    • @randomperson1418
      @randomperson1418 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      @@pourplecat I suppose, but I doubt that submerging 1 hand would hurt that much? I don't have a good thermometer so I can't do this experiment myself, sadly

  • @PoppyBennett-cl9nv
    @PoppyBennett-cl9nv 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +351

    I think the bank teller question is tricky because we misread the question. the reader THINKS it means "what's more likely, Bank Teller AND Feminist or Bank Teller AND NOT Feminist?" When what is being asked is really "what's more likely, Bank Teller (either Feminist or Not), OR Bank Teller AND Feminist?"

    • @NicolasAuvillain
      @NicolasAuvillain 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +80

      I agree, this has always struck me as a bad question. Given the choices 'Bank Teller' and 'Bank Teller and Feminist', I would read the first choice 'Bank Teller' as meaning "not Feminist", because that's how language works, with context. It seems Kahneman isn't aware of that basic feature of language.

    • @rubenlopezruiz8010
      @rubenlopezruiz8010 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +46

      Also, he even says sometimes in the video "just a bank teller". That is literally wrong as just a bank teller would imply she is not a feminist.

    • @AlexaOrchid
      @AlexaOrchid 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Exactly! I wanted to write the same but saw your comment.

    • @nathanshaffer3749
      @nathanshaffer3749 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      Not only that, but it is logical to say no difference in probability between the 2 options. Consider that a layperson being asked this question has not done a study to determine what the average percentage of people at a feminist protest are feminist, they are being asked to assign some ratio as part of the logic. Most people would just say, it's reasonable to guess that 100% of people protesting for those ideals are also feminist. Same would be if you asked "what is the chance a person who attends a baptist church identifies as a Christian?" Clearly the researchers have made the assumption that there are people who protest at the rally who aren't feminist, but why is that the only rational assumption?
      Since we have established that Jen is a protester, we could assume that she has a 100% chance of being a feminist, using the assumption of protest attendance that we were kinda forced to make. So the probability of A vs A && B doesn't change if the probability of B is 100%.
      Tommy is currently enrolled in elementary school. Which statement has a higher degree of probability?
      1. Tommy is allergic to peanuts.
      2. Tommy is allergic to peanuts and Tommy is't old enough to buy alcohol.
      A person would only think two statement only have a different degree of probability if they have reason to believe that there are elementary students who aren't allergic to peanuts AND elementary students who can buy alcohol.

    • @Zaque-TV
      @Zaque-TV 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Bot

  • @MustafaKemalKula
    @MustafaKemalKula 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    I agree with the argument "happy ending" but I would consider two more things which are also related to each other.
    1- Already leaving your comfort zone
    the participants of your experiment are leaving their comfort zone by putting their hands in the cold water, so it doesn't matter for them staying a bit longer because they already felt the pain. Imagine, you have to edit a TH-cam video but you don't have enough energy and motivation to do that but once you start, it doesn't make so much difference continue editing for one more hour, if you get a better result at the end aka a better prize. I would say the prize in this experiment for the participants is to be able to hold their hands more.
    2 - more stress = more adrenalin and dopamine until a certain point
    for example doing an exercise causes stress but with that adrenalin and dopamine hormones release which make us happy. It happens also while we are studying or taking cold shower. It means leaving our comfort zone makes us happy, so leaving it a bit further means more happiness until a certain point. In my opinion we also see this effect in your experiment that's why the participants remember the longer version better.

  • @user-pp2fq8vb7j
    @user-pp2fq8vb7j 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +186

    The ad at the end is brilliant.
    People feel so smart pointing this out, that you get a huge amount of comments -> peak.
    And not only that: People also remember themselves being so smart. And people love feeling smart. And THIS is the real end of the video experience for them.

    • @osopapi
      @osopapi 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      I think you got it. Thanks

    • @bredlify3079
      @bredlify3079 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      O.O

    • @UnknownUser-pf9rk
      @UnknownUser-pf9rk 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Or is it?

    • @phillipsheridan1982
      @phillipsheridan1982 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thus is what I was looking for. Also, I feel like Derek ended the video for most of us earlier, then sort of winked at us to just move on.

    • @dr.vspace
      @dr.vspace 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I was thinking almost same, brilliant idea it was

  • @estiaanj8425
    @estiaanj8425 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +649

    I feel that the bank teller riddle is actually a linguistic problem. It's like in normal every day conversation, asking whether she's a bank teller or a bank teller who's also a feminist implies that if if you pick option one she must not be a feminist, which seems unlikely given her past, but of course, if you consider the question carefully that is not the case.
    I think the question confounds multiple variables. If you could control for people who don't properly understand the question, like for example if you explained that option one makes only one statement about a person who know very little about, while option 2 is making two statements, both of which have to be true, and you made sure people understood this, then you'd get very different results.

    • @puzzzl
      @puzzzl 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +61

      Though whole berry shpiel was also a linguistic problem and not a philosophical one. The linguistic origin of berry and the associated fruits we refer to as berries date to well before Linnaeus defined categories of fruits.

    • @chrishamilton1728
      @chrishamilton1728 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +50

      Agreed, the results of that riddle might just prove that people tend to assume implicit meaning with certain phrases.

    • @neilwinkelmann8540
      @neilwinkelmann8540 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +30

      Exactly. While not the literal interpretation, the defaut understanding of most people will be that the two choices are independent. The although not explicitly stated the "bank teller" option implies a "non-feminist bank teller". There are far better examples of this Bayesian-adjacent error.

    • @HUEHUEUHEPony
      @HUEHUEUHEPony 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      its people who have not studied formal logic, where language is used differently as how it is used by normal people...

    • @sleepingkirby
      @sleepingkirby 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

      I'm with you on this one. Also, it's not "more likely". Feminism is a part of social justice, which is, by definition, what she's a part of. So it's not that she's more likely, she literally should be as per the definition. And, in fact, when I first heard the question, I was like, "She's likely not a bank teller at all. Working for banks will often make her complicit in social justice issues via discriminatory lending, red lining, etc."
      And, as I've written above, she's more like to be a feminist bank teller as she would be one to try to "change the system from within", than she would just a bank teller and be complicit in the system. If they had phrased the sentence differently., like, "What's the probability that she would end up as a bank teller versus a bank teller AND a feminist?" That would yield different answers.

  • @quintenvandenbrande9702
    @quintenvandenbrande9702 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

    The sponsor message at the end of the video is just him experimenting on all of us. Well played sir, well played.

    • @Ram_jagat
      @Ram_jagat 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      yeah

  • @guillaumelavoie1544
    @guillaumelavoie1544 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Your voice and your content is what make me come back every time! I love that it can be applied to almost everything I do in my life, work, training, partnership and memory. I never realized that memory was a photographer and not a filmmaker but know that you mentioned it, it is a photo ta come alive and short span of before and after the photo play in my mind but really not the whole thing. Thanks once again for this great video, I love how memory work and affect our lives in subtle ways.

  • @CatLoverNightshade
    @CatLoverNightshade 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +692

    I feel like there is a problem with the Linda problem: people aren’t familiar with probability terms and have the misconception that instead of the the first option being that she is just a bank teller, it is that she is a bank teller but not a feminist. This ultimately means that they scale the area of the *intersection* of bank teller and feminist with the probability of *bank teller minus the intersection,* which could make the intersection more likely.

    • @defense200x
      @defense200x 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      I'm not buying the whole "preferring pain" thing, its more likely that people associate the additional wait time with the second experiment and thus would prefer the first one again

    • @MyNameIsSalo
      @MyNameIsSalo 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +84

      @@defense200x it's randomised. The first test is longer in half the cases, the second test is longer in the other half. If people had some bias towards thinking the second test was longer and thus worse, then you'd see an even 50/50 split between people prefering the longer or shorter one as the first test is randomly one of the two. You don't see a 50/50 split, the research paper showed 70/30.
      That said, the sample size was only like 50, which is extremely small for human studies. So a large sample size of millions might show 50/50. But it's hard to argue with the rest of the video though, even if you feel the science isn't accurate you know that what it's trying to prove is real. It's just difficult to prove. Also the preferred pain thing is youtube clickbait, what the video is actually about is how we remember experiences. People prefer the experience that had a more pleasant ending to it, not that they preferred more pain.

    • @tobyshe3683
      @tobyshe3683 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +31

      I agree with your analysis and also don't think the Linda problem is related to this subject. I know statistics well enough to answer B instantly, but I know that I would still probably rank the 30 yr life of Jen higher than 35 yr.

    • @sczygiel
      @sczygiel 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      This whole video is about a set of faulty experiments. There is so many wtf there that it is probably worthless "science".
      Like how do you end up with less desirable life if it is longer? clearly that was not the only difference or the measurement was imprecise.
      I refuse to trust any psychological science since I learned how non replicable they are and how shitty the conduct is in many cases.
      Also, I refuse to believe that 30 seconds of warmer water was actually 30 seconds of feeling the warmth. I downwoted this video. It spreads bs unfortunately.

    • @sczygiel
      @sczygiel 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@defense200x Also I dont think that 30 seconds of warmer water is actually 30 seconds of just 1 degree warmer water. It is not possible to warm the water as a whole instantly even by 1 degree. The experiments are an example of bad science painted as rigorous. It is bs unfortunately. There is a reason the replicability of psychological studies is so bad.

  • @kurtlindner
    @kurtlindner 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    I love your content.
    Holy moly, there were _sooo_ many issues with so many arguments here. I found myself nearly spitting my coffee out just from the poor/ leading phrasing used in a couple of the questions used the studies referenced.

    • @newkboots
      @newkboots 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Did you not watch the substance of the video? Or are you just being pedantic and hypercritical?

    • @InfTlr
      @InfTlr ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@newkbootswhat do you think, coming from a person that uses the expression "nearly spit out my coffee"?

    • @InfTlr
      @InfTlr ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      "Holy moly goly jeepers my jinkies are so rattled and my coffee nearly spat out in outrage"
      Soyjak

  • @devilhunt22
    @devilhunt22 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    “All’s well that ends well” proved I guess who knew how accurate it was

  • @TooTallForPony
    @TooTallForPony 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +128

    This is why rock concerts have encores. Edit: this actually works both ways - the fans get to hear a song they've been waiting for and so have a peak experience, and the band gets to play while the crowd goes utterly wild, so they also get a peak experience.

    • @lonesome3958
      @lonesome3958 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      This is a very interesting application of that theory. Never thought about it this way, but albsolutely makes sense

    • @Leyrann
      @Leyrann 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      Interestingly, quite a few bands put their most famous song at the very end of the encore - for example, just last week I saw Scorpions, who finished with Rock You Like A Hurricane. I wonder if combining the peak and the end magnifies the memory, or dulls it because they're overlapping...

    • @agalah408
      @agalah408 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      "Goodnight Springfield...There will be no encore!"
      "Man.. lets trash this place!"

  • @BellaFoleey
    @BellaFoleey 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1597

    “Putting something unpleasant at the end reduces the total perceived quality”
    proceeds to put an ad at the end of the video

    • @JaefisonSanchez
      @JaefisonSanchez 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I can't believe these coomers would like this dumb bot's AI comment, it just shows humanity is gonna end soon.

    • @JaefisonSanchez
      @JaefisonSanchez 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      YOU KNOW WHAT COOMERS, FINE, HERE IS THE GIRL IN THE PICTURES NAME, BEING USED BY THE STUPID SANXUAL SCAM BOT. HERE NAME IS "arisepeachie/arisepeach". THERE, GET WHAT YOU WANT FAP LEGIONNAIRES. EEEEEEEEEE

    • @JaefisonSanchez
      @JaefisonSanchez 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      "Her", not here, lol my grammar sucks.

    • @Mrmr-djkfddsfs65
      @Mrmr-djkfddsfs65 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Would it have been better with the ad in the middle or beginning? Besides, are you actually going to watch the ad?

    • @Hlebuw3k
      @Hlebuw3k 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

      bot shut up

  • @LexUtd
    @LexUtd 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Ending the video with an ad did put a smile on my face, well done sir.

  • @KarenTWilliams-jz8bv
    @KarenTWilliams-jz8bv 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +185

    Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

    • @chikuwa_2564
      @chikuwa_2564 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I have no regrets. The fate of everything was determined at the Big Bang. And I did my best to make decisions for myself with limited information

    • @bennyboy5949
      @bennyboy5949 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      @@chikuwa_2564 why are you replying to a bot

    • @Nick-vs5hl
      @Nick-vs5hl 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@chikuwa_2564 untrue

    • @zebinandrews5742
      @zebinandrews5742 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      On what basis, sir? Where are your sources? Your evidence? ​@@Nick-vs5hl

    • @zebinandrews5742
      @zebinandrews5742 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@bennyboy5949at least it's more enlightened than you lmao

  • @rons4345
    @rons4345 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +771

    Ending a video essay about the benefits of a positive final impression with a 1.5-minute ad is a tad ironic 😂

    • @andrewluo3792
      @andrewluo3792 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +47

      At least it wasn't BetterHelp this time...

    • @nishchal1207
      @nishchal1207 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

      Is ironic , but it has made thousands of people talk about the add, which was their goal. Now they are either super dumb or are super smart to let others think that they are smart and also make them remember about this one add on a veritasium video.

    • @FinnWhittley
      @FinnWhittley 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      They said u remember the ending a lot so it would be beneficial to have it at the end as people would remember the add more

    • @TiogshiLaj
      @TiogshiLaj 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Ah, but the final 1.5 minutes can be *skipped* , the video stopped, or the tab closed. The whole point of the extra 30 seconds of the hand-in-water experiment -- *and* the colonoscopy example -- is that the participant is *not in control of how long it lasts* . But as a viewer of a video, you choose when to end it, so you can *choose* to stop at the puppy.

    • @mattdejarld6522
      @mattdejarld6522 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Who wants to bet he's got 50percent of the videos with and without the ad. Looking forward to the results !

  • @arnauds2222
    @arnauds2222 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +677

    As a French, it took me way too long to understand that thumbnail. Of course I want more pain!

    • @TooTallForPony
      @TooTallForPony 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +50

      pain de mie, pain de campagne, pain de sucre, pain de savon....

    • @allanshpeley4284
      @allanshpeley4284 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +35

      @@TooTallForPony You forgot "pain de butt"

    • @YO-BIZZY
      @YO-BIZZY 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      @@allanshpeley4284poo loaf?😂

    • @austinpeterson4898
      @austinpeterson4898 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@YO-BIZZYthe best kind of pain

    • @danyelnicholas
      @danyelnicholas 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      c‘est pain perdu pour les americains…

  • @thelostangel7649
    @thelostangel7649 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Heavens! I have been doing it wrong the entire time, I always like to push myself a little extra at the end of a workout for instance, despite not liking it very much. No wonder, I feel bad about it later on.
    Thankfully, I can learn. I skipped the ad in the end. Thank you comment section!

  • @buitenhuis1000
    @buitenhuis1000 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Appling this to my life will likely make it more enjoyable, thank you!!

  • @NGC-7635
    @NGC-7635 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +223

    10:30 There's something oddly satisfying about hearing Derek stop talking science for a moment and just absolutely roasting the final season of GoT.

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      It was a great example...... no can fault him if that pain is still present.

    • @AidanBurt
      @AidanBurt 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Great analogy

    • @lukefrahn8538
      @lukefrahn8538 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      the final season was constipated - the solution was 'all bran'

    • @SomeInfamousGuy
      @SomeInfamousGuy 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      It wasn't just the final season. It started going wrong in season 5.

    • @murkotron
      @murkotron 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Gaym of transes

  • @Philliamfnaf
    @Philliamfnaf 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +184

    I had this shower thought quite a while ago, where I figured that adults perceive time faster than children partly because we do less things during the day.
    A child has less experiences, so anything they do is a new "photograph" in their mind, so they learned and experienced many new things, so the day was perceived as slower. Our mind tracks time in moments and not seconds. If you get yourself focused on the work and use several hours on one thing - it's just a single "moment", a single photograph.

    • @Rydn
      @Rydn 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      I also watched that Vsauce video, yes.

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

      @@Rydn or did you?

    • @Rowan4Christ
      @Rowan4Christ 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Also, the more recent and vivid memories, or 'photographs', the less you have from previous years

    • @druggy1868
      @druggy1868 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      A year to a 10 year old kid is 10% of his life but merely 2.5% of a 40 year old adult's life. That might be another factor affecting how they perceive time.

    • @hokayson6518
      @hokayson6518 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@druggy1868 This was always my assumption too.

  • @fcandol
    @fcandol วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Great book from Daniel Khaneman and great video! Thanks for that!

  • @tenebrae711
    @tenebrae711 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for your review on those studies! Very informative and eye-opening!

  • @EviGL
    @EviGL 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +320

    The best way to end this youtube video is with dog playing with the flowers - ends it with an ad instead. Truly makes you think.

    • @user-ox1fr6wc4o
      @user-ox1fr6wc4o 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Surat No. 2 Ayat NO. 28
      How can you be ungrateful to Allah Who bestowed life upon you when you were lifeless then He will cause you to die and will again bring you back to life so that you will be returned to Him.
      Surat No. 52 Ayat NO. 35
      35 Were they created out of nothing, or are they their own creators?
      Surat No. 52 Ayat NO. 36
      36 Did they create the heavens and the earth? No! They have no

    • @hobrin4242
      @hobrin4242 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

      yeah lmao it is kind of undermining his whole message, idk what the thought process was about that. Maybe he really believes that people don't want to leave the video to click the ad when it is in the middle of the video. Or maybe this was like a playful message to say that his sponsor is actually a good thing. Idk.

    • @yuitachibana8829
      @yuitachibana8829 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Iirc only middle ads are controlled by content creator and preroll and endroll are TH-cam automatic ads?

    • @evankim2406
      @evankim2406 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      @@yuitachibana8829 They're talking about the sponsorship.

    • @KORRE760
      @KORRE760 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      Yeah guys. How could you do that to Allah? Shits fucked up

  • @betterchapter
    @betterchapter 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +217

    "Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." - Sun Tzu

    • @user-tw4mk5ox5w
      @user-tw4mk5ox5w 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Confuscius say Dongs Big Dang!

    • @PunkIcould
      @PunkIcould 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

      "Stop quoting things I didn't say!"
      -Sun Tzu

    • @RenameUranus2Caelus
      @RenameUranus2Caelus 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      "But chronic pain is forever. So.... 🤷‍♀️ Whatever, I guess."
      - Famous Q. Person

    • @user-vk1vf7nt1b
      @user-vk1vf7nt1b 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      He is a successful Footballer Hope Sport. You don't want to marry Ronaldo, you might think?! He knew I had Asthma Bronchial. His dog also had Asthma. And only when I started smoking attacks it became 50% less. And the former spouse was generally indignant that there was no asthma. Remission. From 13 to 15 years old, they already gave the Second Disability Group, and this is 25 years of life from the moment. 13(15)+25=39 years (38-40)
      Doctors speak from Mom. But at the age of five, I almost died from Whooping cough. And earlier, too, the hope of Sports of the USSR was expelled for unsportsmanlike behavior two fights from the school of the Olympic reserve in Gymnastics, but did not tell him about it.
      For three years there was. Coach alone took away free of charge from the entire kindergarten. On the swimming offered until the scandal subsides to go, but I was offended. Professional straight hope and talent.
      These are the health consequences of a sharp drop in Professional sports.
      Do you think he would want to date a girl who Twice Beat, Fought and Beat up her gymnast rival from the Paid Section? When is he an Athlete himself?
      There is definitely no puppy with flowers.
      Before that, having scored an arrow on Brawl with his friends for insulting that without a bra in a T-shirt he walks from which he smeared her. So no one else climbed to her. I beat my classmates at school for the cause. And not only Peers at school.
      🥴Yes, my hands are weak, and my legs are very strong. And I hit well unexpectedly with a turn of foot.

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Quitting doesn't last forever unless you quit life

  • @OCaralho91
    @OCaralho91 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    The Game of Throne and Breaking Bad part did ring a bell to me… That’s right that I have a bad memory of the whole serie of GoT because of the 2 last seasons and I don’t want to see it again, even though the first 6 seasons were a master piece… And still I have a great memory of Breaking Bad and have no problem seeing again and again, because it was a master piece from the begining to the end… Probably watched it 6 times, for 2 times for GoT… The memory of an experience do play a lot more than the experience itself.
    Same thing with the pregnancy for women, the labor is really hard and painful, but yet the mind keep the memory has something not so bad, in order for women to be able to want to be pregnant again… Truly amazing :)

  • @mr.a561
    @mr.a561 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That is why the quality of these videos are so good... Because they always end on a good note...

  • @RandomName87126
    @RandomName87126 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +155

    9:33
    "Also, annoyingly enough, a strawberry is not technically a berry. Botany is confusing."
    Nor is it a straw!

    • @bide2505
      @bide2505 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      But it has achenes 😢

    • @busybee2033
      @busybee2033 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      🥱

  • @MinorZero
    @MinorZero 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +652

    For everyone pointing out that 7/12 might not be statistically significant: If the goal was 50% you are right. But the goal is actually 0% because why would _anyone_ prefer more pain? Even 3/12 would be strange!

    • @moos5221
      @moos5221 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +49

      Problem is that it's technically not more pain but it's on average less pain but for a longer duration.

    • @empathy800
      @empathy800 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +30

      Actually, the cold temperature was the same for both experiments during the first few minutes. However, the second experiment lasted ten seconds longer with less discomfort from warmer water.. The subjects preferred the second longer experiment because its ending yielded less discomfort (even though it was ten seconds longer). In other words, it is not so much the time of pleasure or displeasure of an event, but the perception of the event at the end. Thus, our experience at the conclusion of an event will shape our perception of the overall event - the recency bias effect ​@moos5221

    • @Mathijs_A
      @Mathijs_A 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +50

      ​@@moos5221it is more pain. You experience the same, and then some extra pain

    • @moos5221
      @moos5221 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      @@empathy800 yeah, that's already been said in the video, but thanks for the recap i guess.

    • @moos5221
      @moos5221 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

      @@Mathijs_A and that's where i disagree. if the water was colder for the same amount of time or if electrical current was added then i'd say it's more pain. but when it's just longer then it's the same pain just for a longer duration and when for the extra duration it's less pain then before then it's on average less pain but over a longer duration.

  • @OutMagic
    @OutMagic 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    This was really facinating man!

    • @erickariuki2205
      @erickariuki2205 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Right? always sharing the best tips for life

  • @shohishi
    @shohishi 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Your videos never disappoint 🌞 Thank you.

    • @almafonua5757
      @almafonua5757 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Except for his pronunciation to Hiroshima herowshema? 🤦🏾‍♂️ other than that, great video

  • @drpkmath1234
    @drpkmath1234 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1133

    Guess the best way to deal with pain is to imagine what is expected to be accomplished from challenge 👍👍👍

    • @gang1798
      @gang1798 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Then there’s me who likes swimming in 50 degree water 😂

    • @drpkmath1234
      @drpkmath1234 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@gang1798 Let me know if you do that haha

    • @gang1798
      @gang1798 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@drpkmath1234 hehe

    • @amaljoe367
      @amaljoe367 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      But wont that lead to people staying in their pain

    • @Bwalston910
      @Bwalston910 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      What does this even mean

  • @kurczaczak
    @kurczaczak 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +54

    I think it makes a lot of sense.
    1. Knowing the peak of discomfort allows us to judge whether we can go through the same discomfort again. When your goal is not dying, then "how close are you to dying at the worst moment of the experience" is a very good indicator of how bad given experience is.
    2. The end is usually the moment when we get a reward for doing something. Therefore we focus on remembering the end of an experience in order to know what kind of reward we can expect for going through this again.
    Recuding the whole experience to these two numbers allows us much easier processing of events and judging whether we want to take part in them again, while at the same time it preserves most important information about the event.

    • @ripvanwando
      @ripvanwando 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      "In music, though, one doesn’t make the end of a composition the point of the composition. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest and there would be composers who wrote only finales. People would go to concerts just to hear one crashing chord, because that’s the end! Say, when dancing, you don’t aim at a particular spot in the room; that’s where you should arrive. The whole point of the dancing is the dance." - Alan Watts

    • @orroz1
      @orroz1 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@ripvanwando Dont' bore us, get to the chorus :)

    • @alazarbisrat1978
      @alazarbisrat1978 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@ripvanwando it's also to build up the end, if it was by itself then there'd be nothing to it, you need a full experience that culminates into a peak and an end, a rising action for the peak and a proper closing for the whole thing. do you think those people in the experiments would like to experience the lesser pain at the end with no reason or nothing to compare it to?

  • @BrandonFifer
    @BrandonFifer 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I watched this video a week ago and I'm remembering it very fondly

  • @placeboantwerp4312
    @placeboantwerp4312 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Great choice of material. I love Kahneman's books. You represented it very well too.

  • @fabersoul
    @fabersoul 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +935

    stepping on a lego hurt me more than when i cracked my head open on concrete

    • @Deletirium
      @Deletirium 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +97

      That makes total sense, actually.

    • @11alekon
      @11alekon 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +95

      I feel like I am the only one who doesn't find stepping on Lego painful - it's unfortunate for sure but not painful

    • @muckyesyesindisguise3854
      @muckyesyesindisguise3854 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +51

      When did adrenaline get a keyboard?

    • @BenjaminBjornsen
      @BenjaminBjornsen 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +30

      Hit by car, hospital, court and recovery was = holy crap lvl pain,1 week after I remembered I was starting school in 2 months = kill me now! I can"t take it

    • @Spartanxxzachxx
      @Spartanxxzachxx 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Bro stepping on Legos sucks so much. The moment my foot steps down on 1 I look like my legs turned to jelly and I hit the floor in the most annoying pain😂😂😂😂

  • @zwerko
    @zwerko 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +156

    07:14 - Regarding the perception of randomness, a tell-tell sign that something is not random is that there are no repetitions in a sequence. Repetition statistics are used in detecting false randomness during cryptanalysis. As a general rule of thumb, the more random something appears to a human, the less likely it actually is random.

    • @hyrog7795
      @hyrog7795 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +33

      I thunk internally we don't evaluate the odds of 000111 vs 01101110, we evaluate the odds of something seemingly looking artificial vs something seemingly looking chaotic. Technically a bunch of atoms are equally likely to produce a chair than to produce a specific blob, but the odds of the thing looking like a blob are much higher than it looking lke a chair. Something to do with entropy.

    • @DawgFL
      @DawgFL 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Unfortunately because of randomness this also doesn't apply. You can't just look at something and think "a human probably didnt do that" and then evaluate it's randomness higher.

    • @ttt5020
      @ttt5020 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

      'Tell-tale' is the term. as in, it's a sign that tells a tale/story. Circles under someone's eyes tell the story(tale) of a sleepless night. They're a tell-tale sign of insomnia! Get it?

    • @hobrin4242
      @hobrin4242 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      yeah. I was forging a study that I supposedly conducted for a high school math teacher - I didn't know whether or not to put in many patterns or to avoid it and thus make it less random.

    • @user-ox1fr6wc4o
      @user-ox1fr6wc4o 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Surat No. 2 Ayat NO. 28
      How can you be ungrateful to Allah Who bestowed life upon you when you were lifeless then He will cause you to die and will again bring you back to life so that you will be returned to Him.
      Surat No. 52 Ayat NO. 35
      35 Were they created out of nothing, or are they their own creators?
      Surat No. 52 Ayat NO. 36
      36 Did they create the heavens and the earth? No! They have no

  • @shivamhrd
    @shivamhrd 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Thats why we have an old saying in India "Ant bhala to sab bhala". meaning "if it ends well then everything is well".

  • @sergeitokaev4695
    @sergeitokaev4695 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    commercials are so sweet and relaxing, so they were put into the final part of the video.

  • @FatLingon
    @FatLingon 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +405

    "Vegetable" is not a classification in biology; it is more of a category of food that contains a wide selection of parts from plants, including roots (like carrots), stems (like celery), leaves (like spinach), flowers (like broccoli), seeds (like peas), fruits (like tomatoes and cucumbers), and berries (like bell peppers and eggplants).

    • @ChrisLuttrell
      @ChrisLuttrell 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

      I heard it was a term from marketing, nothing to do with biology at all.

    • @albertwaters6436
      @albertwaters6436 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

      I’m reading the comments while watching the video and wondering how veggies are going to fit into it haha

    • @dhu2056
      @dhu2056 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +55

      Derek got it compeletely wrong there. Berry just has a definition in botany separate from colloquial usage. People have been saying the word "berry" long before scientists aribtrarily chose that term to refer to a part of a plant.

    • @d3fau1thmph
      @d3fau1thmph 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Vegetables are plants of which the non-fruit parts are edible (like onion),

    • @dhu2056
      @dhu2056 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

      @@d3fau1thmph So you're implying that pumpkin is a vegetable because the leaves are edible. Assuming you meant "edible parts of a plant that isn't a fruit," then that is also wrong. Nobody calls cinnamon a vegetable.

  • @psychedelicgazelle1588
    @psychedelicgazelle1588 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +178

    On the topic of Linda the potential feminist bank-teller: I think the reason that people may get that question wrong is because we mentally fill in a gap that isn't actually there. Our brains interpret the question as "Which is more likely: A) Linda is a bank teller (and not a feminist) or B) Linda is a bank teller and a feminist. The part in parentheses was never actually said, but the framing of the question leads us to expect it and that's the question people answer before thinking about it.

    • @ledviper9
      @ledviper9 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      exactly what I thought as well!

    • @neonmarblerust
      @neonmarblerust 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +32

      Yes, these results are more about how the words are being used than any lived experience. People are really bad at describing things like this. Especially someone who just went through a colonoscopy.

    • @hellomate639
      @hellomate639 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      I commented on this before reading your comment. Yes, the question frames it like its mutually exclusive.

    • @all_so_frivolous
      @all_so_frivolous 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

      No this is definitely not it. The original version of the experiment actually didn't involve both options but had a more convoluted way to compare them (If I recall correctly half the participants were shown "bank teller" , half were shown "feminist bank teller", and all were shown a common third option and compared the difference with the common answer).
      The experiment mentioned here is actually a follow up, which they only made because they effect was so strong they wanted to see if it generalizes even when shown both options.

    • @galoomba5559
      @galoomba5559 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@all_so_frivolous That makes so much more sense

  • @bvvj58d8
    @bvvj58d8 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    What you say is true and true from my own experience, as last year’s summer vacation ended with an earthquake that struck Morocco, and this made me forget all the beautiful moments of the summer vacation.

  • @anisurrehman41
    @anisurrehman41 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The peak of this video is enough for me to come back.

  • @markhadman
    @markhadman 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +47

    'The Linda Problem' has been widely criticized, and in my view rightly so. See, for example 'The Problem With The Linda Problem' by Eric Robert Morse, which illustrates exactly why I felt it was a poorly constructed experiment.

    • @raymondqiu8202
      @raymondqiu8202 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Interesting, commenting to remember this

    • @geoffdavids7647
      @geoffdavids7647 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      Yep, my feeling is that the first choice, of "bank teller" is interpreted as "bank teller and not feminist" due to the phrasing of the question and the unusual-ness of the format. Who asks a question where one option is completely a subset of the other, in normal life? Questions normally are used to differentiate between two separate things, and if one option gives you a thing the other option wont unless clearly explained otherwise.

    • @Hinotori_joj
      @Hinotori_joj 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      Yeah, when he said it, i thought the second option, because after i heard it, I assumed that the first meant "she's a bank teller (and NOT part of the movement)". While that's an interesting assumption in itself, I don't feel like it was at all because of my mental image of feminism, and much more about how we understand speech and language. (It's very rare that somebody gives you two options that not only aren't mutually exclusive, but one of them entirely includes the other, which I think is why I assumed that wasn't the case).
      Oh, the article you mentioned says exactly that. Nice.

    • @joshcryer
      @joshcryer 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      ​@geoffdavids7647 yeah it should be phrased "a bank teller who has a variety of opinions"

  • @uninvited5417
    @uninvited5417 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +103

    The part about the eggplant being a berry and still being cooked as a vegetable reminded of that bit that goes: Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad

    • @ariesearthdragon
      @ariesearthdragon 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      If it's common for pizzas to be eaten with chopped pineapples on them, fruit salads can be made with sliced grape tomatoes.

    • @uninspired3583
      @uninspired3583 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      So knowledge is knowing a thing, and wisdom is also knowing a thing.

    • @aidan5715
      @aidan5715 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      @@uninspired3583another way to look at it would be the knowledge is knowing a thing but wisdom is understanding when to use the application of that thing.
      Often they go hand in hand, however on the example stated above it’s probably more wise not to include tomatoes in your fruit salad (even if they are a fruit).

    • @uninspired3583
      @uninspired3583 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @aidan5715 you've just substituted knowing for understanding here though.
      Wisdom seems to be a particular kind of knowledge. You can know things without being wise, but you can't be wise without knowledge. "Wisdom" with the absence of knowledge is just lucky.

    • @plackt
      @plackt 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@uninspired3583yeah, you missed the more important addition of “understanding *when*…”
      So knowledge is knowing the difference between your and you’re. Wisdom is knowing not to point out the mistake in the middle of someone’s presentation (or something, I don’t know).

  • @Dkyt-lm4mw
    @Dkyt-lm4mw 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    This explains why people prefer to leave a work at present moment to avoid discomfort and later feel remorse for not doing it at that moment .

  • @zaminshaikhh
    @zaminshaikhh 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I swear half of Veritasium's videos are based on Thinking Fast and Slow and I am here for it

  • @devial9879
    @devial9879 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    I feel the Linda experiment has a massive flaw. The way language works, people may assume that the lack of explicitly stating Linda is a feminist in option one, vs the explicit statement in option 2, implicitly means that option actually is "Linda is a bank teller AND NOT a feminist". Yes, strictly speaking, that is not included in the statement, but language is often about interpretation and implicit meaning (see the classic "Asbestos free cereal"), and I for one, instinctively arrived at that interpretation. And given Linda's background, when choosing between "Linda is a bank teller and not a feminist" vs. "Linda is a bank teller and a feminist", the latter is clearly more likely. If you were to rephrase the two options as "1: Linda is a bank teller, and may or may not be active in the feminist movement" and "2: Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement", I would very much suspect that most people correctly pick option 1 as more likely. At the very least, I'd argue that such a phrasing would be necessary to remove the ambiguity from this experiment.
    In my mind, this experiment is more demonstrating the interpretation of language, and less some flawed understanding of statistics.
    This flaw is also literally IN the Gould quote. He says "She can't JUST be a bank teller". He is implicitly assuming that the bank teller option means Linda is JUST a bank teller and not a feminist.

    • @CodePsy-2001
      @CodePsy-2001 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      The need for additional expression to remove ambiguity proves the representation bias in itself. Language reflects people's thinking.

  • @The-Caged-King
    @The-Caged-King 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +94

    I also tend to prefer more pain, especially on the weekends

    • @junba1810
      @junba1810 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

      Do you play League of Legends perhaps?

    • @The-Caged-King
      @The-Caged-King 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

      @@junba1810 no… it’s rainbow six siege…

    • @petergao96
      @petergao96 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      ​@@The-Caged-King yikes, I'm praying for you dude

    • @The-Caged-King
      @The-Caged-King 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

      @@petergao96 if god could help me… he would have done so 2000 hours ago…

    • @SBImNotWritingMyNameHere
      @SBImNotWritingMyNameHere 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      ​@@The-Caged-King
      May God bless your soul

  • @jahosaphat
    @jahosaphat 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That was super interesting and informative. Thank you.

  • @1ts_Leen0
    @1ts_Leen0 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm so glad I found this channel.

  • @josephbartmanovich2923
    @josephbartmanovich2923 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +63

    The whole berry thing has to do with two vernaculars that use the same words and it is confusing. In the scientific vernacular, berries are something specific that has to do with the plants reproduction, in the culinary vernacular berries are something specific that has to do with their culinary use and flavour profile.
    Also in the science vernacular, vegetable is a property denoting that something is edible, but in culinary vernacular it is a type of thing that is categorised by it's use in cuisine.
    A tomato is a vegetable both culinarily and scientifically, but only in science is it a fruit, a berry, and a vegetable.

    • @twosmartfouryou2537
      @twosmartfouryou2537 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      exactly, I was confused cause it seems like those examples were completely unrelated to anything else

    • @Puzzlesocks
      @Puzzlesocks 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      +1 for a guy who understands that words have multiple meanings that depend on their context. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting a tomato in a fruit salad.

    • @arronalt
      @arronalt 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      yeah using that as an example in the video annoyed me a lot

    • @danielalvesldiniz
      @danielalvesldiniz 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      EXACTLY. in my native language there's not even a causal, non scientific word for "berry"

    • @kikiTHEalien
      @kikiTHEalien 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      "Vegetable" is not a scientific term

  • @kevinyancey958
    @kevinyancey958 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +93

    As someone in chronic pain, I don't prefer pain at all. But if your having pain in a part of your body, applying worse pain in another spot will make the original pain magically disappear. Your brain generally only registers the larger pain input. Say you burn your hand on the rack in the oven while pulling out that pizza. You could stomp on a toe and the pain on your hand will no longer be an issue, as long as the toe pain is greater. However, when the pain in your toe fades, the burn pain will return.

    • @TooTallForPony
      @TooTallForPony 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

      Reminds me of a joke my high school math teacher said: "Why do you keep hitting your head against the wall?" "Because it feels good when I stop."

    • @funsized924
      @funsized924 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      agreed as a migraine sufferer. Before I started taking prescription medication for it, the only thing I could do sometimes was bite the crap out of my arms, hands, and feet just so my brain could focus on pain somewhere else

    • @cygnustsp
      @cygnustsp 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      That's why Dr House intentionally broke his finger because he couldn't take pain meds for his leg

    • @legendaxicad._
      @legendaxicad._ 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      I agree, and as a fellow with chronic pain (migraines, Wilson's disease, Pectus Excavatum also known as palpitations (basically) ), though I may not be able to share your pain or problems, the best and most important is as Derek said at the end, having a peak and a good end. I think we all need more and more joyous / memorable lives, especially now.

    • @legendaxicad._
      @legendaxicad._ 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@funsized924Same. Sometimes, I remember a fellow friend of mine in elementary and middle school who may or may not had migraines with me, banged our heads on anything, mostly walls even competing how hard we would be able to do it...

  • @keelanrose5706
    @keelanrose5706 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Loved the end!

  • @samgodse5824
    @samgodse5824 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I was about to share this video with all of my friends until I saw the ad at the end 😂
    I ended up sharing with some anyways

  • @FrancisKoczur
    @FrancisKoczur 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +200

    People tend to prefer a challenge, but it doesn't need to be painful to be challenging.
    People also tend to mistake relief for pleasure.

    • @Channel7331
      @Channel7331 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +59

      Mistake is the wrong word. Relief can be extremely pleasurable

    • @georgekasmer5095
      @georgekasmer5095 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Your concept of pleasure is incomplete ​@@Channel7331

    • @Inklenation
      @Inklenation 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +22

      As a chronic pain sufferer… I find it extremely pleasurable to feel relief of the pain…

    • @yaush_
      @yaush_ 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      @@Channel7331this actually has research behind it. Relief is pleasure but it only lasts for an extremely short time

    • @tichu7
      @tichu7 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      ​@@Channel7331People frantically looking for a toilet would agree.

  • @Sasur44
    @Sasur44 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +25

    I love the subtle nod to the number 37

    • @ENDERLEGEND26
      @ENDERLEGEND26 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      What where i didnt notice

    • @Diablo0
      @Diablo0 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@ENDERLEGEND26 8:15

    • @ENDERLEGEND26
      @ENDERLEGEND26 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Diablo0 ah yes the chalkboard.. damn yall r keen

  • @OgienChomik
    @OgienChomik 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for putting out a great video that actually goes over a lot of terms and topics that are covered on the MCAT for the psychology/sociology section. I know that was not your intention but it was fantastic for covering experimental design, test criterion (comparing your test to another already established experiment), the experiencing self verses the remembering self. and several more topics that I've been trying to study and get down for my MCAT test that I'll be taking on august 2nd. That's a really nice latent function of a fascinating science video (or was it the intended function, to teach and familiarize several relevant terms to the topic at hand) I've got more studying to do...

  • @Shrey_J
    @Shrey_J วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks, I learnt something new again !!

  • @SmoofyYT
    @SmoofyYT 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +197

    I remember this one study where people were put in a room for fifteen minutes and had the option to wait out the time doing nothing, or shock themselves, and a surprising amount of people chose the shock. I haven’t watched the video yet so I don’t know if this is relevant to it, but it is certainly an interesting study.
    Edit: After doing a bit of skimming through the video, I was unable to find a reference to this study. However, I realized that Veritasium did a whole video about boredom a while back, and that actually is where I learned of the study. It’s all coming full circle lol.

    • @daanstrik4293
      @daanstrik4293 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +37

      Boredom is the greatest agony, and the greatest motivator.
      Love and fear pale in comparison to boredoms ability to spur us into action

    • @brainflash1
      @brainflash1 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      That's just boredom dude.

    • @a_skellington
      @a_skellington 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

      Thats a different experiment for a different concept to the one in this video, that experiment explored how the brain prefers bad stimulus to no stimulus at all in certain situations. This experiment is about how the duration of an event is not remembered, rather the key moments of it, the average experience and the end, meaning a longer duration of pain will be remebered more fondly, so long as there is the slightest drop in pain by the end, which changes the average experience and the end, and provides a key moment of noticing a decrease in pain.

    • @aoifedeborha2420
      @aoifedeborha2420 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      Pretty sure Vsauce had a MindField video on that too 😂

    • @Mortablunt
      @Mortablunt 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      All that’s doing is reminding me of the prehistoric SpongeBob scene where primitive SpongeBob and Patrick ancestors pass a jellyfish back-and-forth and keep getting stung.

  • @SilkCrown
    @SilkCrown 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +45

    "Only, I know you love pain. Pain reminds you the joy you felt was real." - Niander Wallace

    • @user-ox1fr6wc4o
      @user-ox1fr6wc4o 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Surat No. 2 Ayat NO. 28
      How can you be ungrateful to Allah Who bestowed life upon you when you were lifeless then He will cause you to die and will again bring you back to life so that you will be returned to Him.
      Surat No. 52 Ayat NO. 35
      35 Were they created out of nothing, or are they their own creators?
      Surat No. 52 Ayat NO. 36
      36 Did they create the heavens and the earth? No! They have no

    • @ryanspence5831
      @ryanspence5831 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I disagree. Remembering a past joy that is irrecoverable is highly unpleasant. Remembering being in love with someone who left you is one of the most unfavorable experiences that most people can recollect.

  • @Dr.RedDragon
    @Dr.RedDragon 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Splendid Thumbnail Sir Derek.

  • @AJ-ln4sm
    @AJ-ln4sm 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    14°C water isn't really very cold, if your drink was that temp, you would want to put ice in it.

  • @plumper303
    @plumper303 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +37

    The "Bank 37" on the wall and ground was a nice touch. :)

    • @kokoska9474
      @kokoska9474 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Yeah I also saw that and was looking for a comment mentioning it!

    • @jankiprasadsoni6793
      @jankiprasadsoni6793 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      A bot copied your comment

    • @dirtspritestuff5850
      @dirtspritestuff5850 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      37 will show up EVERYWHERE now, won't it

    • @plumper303
      @plumper303 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@jankiprasadsoni6793 thanks for the info lol

  • @AnonymousFreakYT
    @AnonymousFreakYT 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

    "Duration Neglect" - I've never heard of that phenomenon, but now that I have, I can recall *MANY* situations where this came in to play.
    My wife isn't a big fan of long trips, but loves "being at places." A couple weeks ago, we did a relatively short road trip - 3 hours to where we'd spend a weekend. last year, we did a *LONG* road trip - multiple days each way to reach where we'd spend a couple weeks.
    In both cases, during the driving, she hated it. A couple hours into the drive, "why are we going so far.?.?" - but after just a couple hours at the destination, the length of the drive was totally worth it to her.

    • @janisir4529
      @janisir4529 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Can't relate, I could name multiple vacations where the main thing that sticks out is how much we needed to travel to get to places.
      Also I hate flying, airports are basically hell on Earth.

  • @gunplaytv
    @gunplaytv 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    Enjoying the experience 10% more with the tip left in for 3 minutes is *WILD* 😂

  • @azraeltom
    @azraeltom 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Just a thought: Hypothetically, if there were people with, say, 'good memories' who can remember the middle pleasant parts (between the start and ending) more 'fondly' than the rest of those who does not have 'good memories'. Would how the ending was 'carried out' (or executed) have a lesser impact on the overall experience for those said people with 'good memories'.
    An example similar to Jen from me would be this-
    You have a fulfilling and fun school time. You meet and make friends with people who change your life for the better, and to them by you. Your school is a great place with not only good friends but also good teachers whom you share those memories. As all of you hope to end your school years before going your separate ways with a bang, pandemic hits on a global scale. You haven't met anyone from school, too busy to connect properly because you and everyone else is adjusting to post-pandemic lifestyle. This goes on for three years and now looking back, how would you rate your school experience?
    Hope this was understandable, thanks.

  • @theondono
    @theondono 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +300

    Pop-psychology checklist:
    - Sounds surprising- Check
    - Effect sizes are relatively small- Check
    - Sample sizes with minimal- Check
    Given that Derek himself made a video about the replication crisis, I'm quite impressed his radar isn't jumping like crazy with this...

    • @LunaBeth97
      @LunaBeth97 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +41

      Yeah there's a few red flags in the studies he mentioned just from how he described them. The one that stood out to me was the story of the woman with 5 years extra life. Like it's clearly less favourable because, if she was in a car accident, we associate that recovery with suffering so they'd really have to clarify the quality of life to the participants. Then did they also test the responses if those 5 worse years weren't just at the end of her life. I haven't checked the source but it's still good to question these things.

    • @Ironically-Sarcastic
      @Ironically-Sarcastic 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

      This is an almost pointless comment on a pop-psychology TH-cam channel's video.

    • @GrabnarMyers
      @GrabnarMyers 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +65

      @@Ironically-Sarcasticnot really. Some of us like me have just realized on this video hes more into pseudoscience than real science. For literal years I thought his word was simply fact and it genuinely took until THIS video for me to realize the error in thinking that about anyone. You never know who will read your comment and the chain-reaction it could have to fight misinformation.

    • @filipe.estima
      @filipe.estima 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@GrabnarMyers You mean he's on TH-cam solely for entertainment of people, not enlightenment?

    • @eulefranz944
      @eulefranz944 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      N=32 kekw like bro what is this

  • @chrisbagdon
    @chrisbagdon 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    “Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.” John Steinbeck - East of Eden

  • @nathanvanderriet209
    @nathanvanderriet209 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    An issue I take with the representativeness heuristic is the set up implies set A and not set B (I know this isn’t what’s technically stated but still). Other set ups I’ve seen also have similar issues. For example, the main symptoms of a severe disease are cough, muscle spasms and blotches in vision. A patient has this disease. You ask a doctor what is more likely, that they have a cough or that they have a cough and blotches in vision. Again the first set up _implies_ no blotches and is also the wrong question to ask a doctor. The right question to ask is given the symptoms, what is the probability of this severe disease? And it’s much higher in the latter case
    As for the eggplant berry thing- I think that’s just a practical choice no?
    “Would you like some berries with your yoghurt”
    “Well hold on now, what berries? Literally anything small and sweet or a big wet needs to be cooked zucchini looking thing?”

  • @chanceshortss
    @chanceshortss 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Thats actually crazy lol! I kinda want to do this experiment now...

  • @pauldacus4590
    @pauldacus4590 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

    The thumbnail on this is Gold Level..

  • @iamthecondor
    @iamthecondor 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +124

    The current thumbnail is too good! hahaha

    • @doggomir
      @doggomir 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      He went from the "I'm bad at making thumbnails" video a few years ago to "I crafted the perfect thumbnail"

    • @LuisGustavoBD
      @LuisGustavoBD 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Say what you will about Veritasium videos, but you gotta give it to Derek: the man knows how to make a proper thumbnail.

  • @noumanullah4311
    @noumanullah4311 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I went for repairing my broken watch, the repair person kept me waited for like one hour and that whole hour I kept cursing him but at the very last moment I got it repaired by him the same perspective changed I was pleasant to see my watch repaired and never remembered the pain of one hour. It's true and i realized only after watching this video.

  • @MinhNguyen-wz2wn
    @MinhNguyen-wz2wn 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    OK now we all remembered Headspace, brilliant ad Derek

  • @retcbn9894
    @retcbn9894 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +760

    I prefer bananas more

    • @daminam
      @daminam 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

      That's fair ngl

    • @SmoofyYT
      @SmoofyYT 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      Banana smoothies are kinda fire ngl

    • @caskeilman28
      @caskeilman28 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      Those berries are delicious fr

    • @TrinX.12
      @TrinX.12 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      I hate bananas

    • @pokecrafter8678
      @pokecrafter8678 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Same

  • @rphelps4227
    @rphelps4227 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +24

    That Game of Thrones shade was hilarious!

  • @ThePretender1
    @ThePretender1 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Brilliant!

  • @anasfayyaz8275
    @anasfayyaz8275 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Because This is 10% Luck,
    20% Skill,
    15% Concentrated Power of Will,
    5% Pleasure,
    50% Pain,
    and 100% reason to Remember the name.

  • @Cheesechunkz
    @Cheesechunkz 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +21

    Randomness doesn't just refer to mathematical randomness it can also refer to what ww percieve as a chaotic organization as opposed to an ordered one. Saying that boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, girl is more random is not a "mistake" unless you specify that you are talking about liklihood of occurring and not chaos.

    • @redjr242
      @redjr242 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      I think the reason is it has higher entropy. People see the second configuration as "mixed together", for which many sequences could represent, rather than just the sequence given. Whereas they see "boys and girls separated" for the first, which fewer sequences represent, so seems less likely.

    • @LuisGustavoBD
      @LuisGustavoBD 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      True, that. But then again, I imagine that if one of these researchers were to take it's time to properly present the question in a way that it is clear and unambiguous to the subject, then they wouldn't observe the results that they were after :P

  • @notme222
    @notme222 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +24

    I love this study. We remember the ending and peak experience more than the average experience or duration. Such a lesson in human psyche.

  • @ghetoknight7801
    @ghetoknight7801 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I feel lik everyone watched the ad to the end lol
    great vid as always, interesting phenomena and applying it irl im hoping will be positive
    it sounds less like rewarding to build incentive and more like warping the image of something, new hidden tech for studying wth

  • @monke4897
    @monke4897 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I noticed this method used in various tv shows where theres a small peak in the middle of the episode after that it's just boring but the end makes you excited to watch another episode
    crazy how the mind works

  • @O_Lee69
    @O_Lee69 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +121

    7/12 is just one person away from a perfect tie.

    • @harktischris
      @harktischris 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +24

      yeah, i get what derek was trying to do, but the difference between 12 and 32 in terms of sample size is pretty significant, to the point where 7/12 can easily happen by just random chance (pretty sure the confidence intervals on that 58% are huge and overlap with 50%), so his small-scale recreation is not confidence-inspiring in terms of results. But 22/32 is quite a bit harder to do by random chance, but even then I think we can only accept it in combination with the other studies (videos) that showed similar effects.

    • @xmorgan1123x
      @xmorgan1123x 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +21

      the options weren't equal though, one option was more painful than the other so even if 1/12 people chose the more painful one it would still be a question of why

    • @thisisnotdom
      @thisisnotdom 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      ​@@harktischrisYeah I computed the confidence intervals out of interest. Essentially there's a 5% chance from the original study that the true value is less than or equal to 50%. So I'd be a bit skeptical unless other studies proved the same, and assuming their experimental procedure was very robust.

    • @Czeslaw_cn4tv
      @Czeslaw_cn4tv 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Yes, but this was just a recreation for the sake of the video. The paper is what matters more in this case.

    • @p0pimp2004
      @p0pimp2004 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

      It's significant that most people didn't choose the less painful experience. The point is it shouldn't even be close to fifty fifty. The only people who should be choosing the more painful event are the masochists

  • @winstonsmith6065
    @winstonsmith6065 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +31

    Veritasium out here lookin’ for the kwisatz haderach…
    “I must not fear.
    Fear is the mind-killer.
    Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
    I will face my fear.
    I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
    And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
    Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” -Paul Atreides

    • @IllidanS4
      @IllidanS4 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      Lisan al Gaib!

    • @timhaldane7588
      @timhaldane7588 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      "Put your hand in the bucket."

    • @shabadrandhawa3829
      @shabadrandhawa3829 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@timhaldane7588 "what's in the bucket/box?"

    • @winstonsmith6065
      @winstonsmith6065 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@shabadrandhawa3829
      The box contains pain… Will you face your fear and the dreaded Gom Jabbar? Perhaps you are the one we have been waiting for… are you the Voice from the Outer World?

    • @michaelmurdock4607
      @michaelmurdock4607 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I get microblisters on my hands - a type of eczema. I will give myself 1st degree burns, practically tattoo myself with a sewing needle, or freeze them until they can't move because the new pain wipes out the first pain and is interpreted as relief by my brain. So, yeah, bring on the pain.

  • @vakarami
    @vakarami 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Another learning video, thanks

  • @destroyercs5720
    @destroyercs5720 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I had my first day at work exceptional, made great efforts for learning AI-ML, India won just now, and before I sleep I see Veritasium's new upload in recommendations. God, Can this day get any better?

  • @dgris7944
    @dgris7944 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

    Cute dog playing with flowers is at 15:28..... followed by 90s of sponsored content! If I watch the sponsored content then this video is not 'optimized for the end', and I'll have an unconciousably less favourable impressions of the video as a whole. Fortunately I didn't watch the sponsored ad and am therefore more motivated to "like" the video.

    • @Mattkael
      @Mattkael 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      This guy got the message.

  • @ImMigrant98086
    @ImMigrant98086 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +131

    Linda Problem was incorrectly worded outside the problem. 8:14 "Linda is a bank teller" is more probable than "Linda is a bank teller and an active feminist" but later 8:55 and 9:46 "JUST a bank teller" can be less probable because "JUST a bank teller" is not an active feminst whereas "IS a bank teller" can be a feminist.

    • @user-ox1fr6wc4o
      @user-ox1fr6wc4o 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Surat No. 2 Ayat NO. 28
      How can you be ungrateful to Allah Who bestowed life upon you when you were lifeless then He will cause you to die and will again bring you back to life so that you will be returned to Him.
      Surat No. 52 Ayat NO. 35
      35 Were they created out of nothing, or are they their own creators?
      Surat No. 52 Ayat NO. 36
      36 Did they create the heavens and the earth? No! They have no

    • @zachattack3ee
      @zachattack3ee 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      The "just" that he speaks of is describing the mistake people's bias is making. Your bias is telling you that option A) is that she is "JUST" a bank teller, even though the answer available to you said "IS" a bank teller.

    • @peabnuts123
      @peabnuts123 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      It's still true though right? There are more bank tellers than feminist bank tellers (sadly). The intersection of A ^ B is smaller than A - B.

    • @kaidatong1704
      @kaidatong1704 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      I don't think the original survey was biased by ppl misunderstanding the problem. I thought some interviewer said he understood the logic that a more specific one must be less likely, but that little homunculus was still shouting or smth

    • @ggugvrunt
      @ggugvrunt 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      I agree with ImMigrant, both options state that she is a bank teller so you are really just deciding whether or not it is likely she is an active feminist. The addition of the word 'just' is very significant.

  • @stanacc6999
    @stanacc6999 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    In my early college days, my friends and I were helping a senior with their final year psychology project by participating in a similar experiment. We had to place our hand in that bucket of ice and rate our discomfort and then we would be shown a video of someone else doing the same. We would be given the power to tell the other person when they should stop putting their hand in. The catch was that if we forced the person in the video to keep their hand inside for the full 10 minutes, we would be given $20. The video was fake of course but it really showed us which of us had empathy and which of us did not. Was expecting the video to be about this experiment at first but was pleasantly surprised that the topic was even more interesting

  • @ajsrf
    @ajsrf 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +88

    8:28 "very bright" doesn't exactly match my mental model of someone protesting nuclear power.

    • @leniterfortis4832
      @leniterfortis4832 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

      BASED

    • @TheSlicingSword
      @TheSlicingSword 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      fallout 4 moment

    • @chillytheimmortal9009
      @chillytheimmortal9009 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Probably protesting nuclear weapons, not power...

    • @LuisGustavoBD
      @LuisGustavoBD 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      Linda would probably be spraying orange powder on Stonehenge or something like that nowadays.

    • @MrBelles104
      @MrBelles104 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@LuisGustavoBD Ah yes, finally Stonehenge has stopped using oil.

  • @theelephantintheroom69
    @theelephantintheroom69 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    5:10 THAT ESCALLATED QUICKLY.