Cognitive ease (or hidden complexity) | Thomas C. Durand | TEDxToulouse
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Thomas C. Durand |
TEDxToulouse
• April 2019
The figures don’t lie: in the United States, between 1990 and 2010, the production of honey was statistically proportionately inverse to the number of adolescents arrested for cannabis possession. Simply put, statistically, the more honey is produced, the less young people take drugs or the less they are caught. If we were to deduce that to reduce the menace of drugs, we should support beekeepers. Wouldn’t that be a cognitive bias?
Luckily, Thomas Durand has come to talk to us about the pranks our brains play in this regard. Author of publications on science and critical thinking (“L’ironie de l’évolution”, Seuil. “Quand est-ce qu’on biaise?”, Humenscience), presenter of La Tronche en Biais on YouTube, director of the Association pour la Science et la Transmission de l’Esprit Critique (ASTEC), zetetic trainer.
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