@ShawnPMr I found it to be very refreshing. This is one of the first videos that had a clear answer that didn't pander to some extreme desire to change the entire system, but actually bring a balance to both sides, which is what is needed to truly run a working government. If at the very least I'll be happy to watch Mathew Taylor's videos with a critical mind and an appreciation for some non-anti-(insert subject) here views, that get down and come up with suggestions.
I wish the RSA ruled the world. Dedicated to the cause of highlighting the institutional wrongs, tracing their causes to psychological, sociological or economical factors, you seek to understand why inequalities and inconsistencies exist in every facet of our society. With a overall tone of compassion for the disadvantaged, and the human race as a whole, RSA seems dedicated to understanding the greatest problems human society as a whole faces. Knowledge is power.
This one is SOOO much better than the Jeremy Rifkin one. And he's making a lot of the same points. Amazing how much more palitable an idea is when it's argued honestly in terms of specifics.
Wow. Can't believe this has only 1200 views. The argument is well thought out and the animated medium is thoroughly entertaining and er... illustrative :-) !
Astounding...the visuals definitely help with understanding the principles of the speakers. I am very impressed. I've watched 5 videos in a row and am now a subscriber.
i actually had a step 4, use the internet to produce a graph that deals with problems that we need solved, where people can add their suggestions to the graph, with a pros section, a cons section, and a ideas section, each ideas section would also have this itself, the resulting computational power for solving problems would be massive, so long as the government makes an effort to keep the public involved and keep the data heavily protected.
It's talking about left political views and right political views and how instead of being baited by the politics of instant gratification, we should become more responsible, educated citizens and take advantage of the fact that we are living in a democracy. People see the title looking for some interesting facts about the brain, but the message is really interesting.
I enjoy the RSA videos, especially the animated ones. I particularly enjoyed this lecture. Unfortunately the photography and editing are obvious enough to interfere with the presentation. Otherwise, thank you and I'm glad that I discovered the RSA.
Has the research regarding "visual-spacial" learners and "audio-sequential" learners been considered in the offering of content via these types of videos? The videos do cover both learner types so well. Love your work! Is there a video about the creative process used in the making of the RSA videos?
Maybe sometime in the future there will be "left brain friendly" countries and "right brain friendly countries" and people will decide in which country they would like to live depending on their personality and world view.
@Richardscjj The abstract for the Anna Sudstrom paper supports my postion, that various "studies" of "self-assessed" driving skills are full of probs rendering them rather useless, amongst those probs a diff between what the respondent thinks is the defintion of 'average" and what the researchers have in mind. Don't you see the game? The researchers actually know that there will be defintional differences, and then they pretend not to know. Lying is so common that most humans lie about lying.
@rh001YT You're misunderstanding what they're saying here. They're saying that according to the poll that they must be referencing (assuming it actually exists) 90% of people said they were better drivers, which is mathematically impossible. Also, the poll was most likely more specific to drivers within similar areas, to avoid "US citizens are better drivers" rhetoric. I don't know this for a fact, however. I just think they were implying that 90% of us cannot be above average.
Difference between Democracy and Dictatorship is that in Dictatorship you know you don't have a choice. In Democracy you believe you have. With that being said, Democracy is a form of government in which people believe they are not governed by Aristocrats.
@etzel33 why even compare? both are good, and each of the presentations, lectures should be valued on their own and not by where and from whom they came from.
I really enjoyed this video and I agree with everything but only given that such a mechanism is initiated in a society, my worry is that today those who decide if to establish such a mechanism are those "damaged" by a redistribution of power... what could the intermediate scenario be, one that brings us to initiate such a change?
Fine stuff! Who'da thunk I could reconsider democracy! But, I've always thought any system would work if it were comprised of the right people. Even democracy ... I'd have to admit.
I wonder what would happen if someone tried to explain something else (maybe the venturi effect, or how a washing machine works) using this graphical method would the increase in comprehension of the student increase to justify the extra effort involved in this teaching method ?
@etzel33 I agree they are better than TEDtalks, and are more visually entertaining! Which also makes it easier to follow what the speaker is talking about.
@etzel33 Not everything is a competition. The great thing about intellectual presentation of theories and ideas is that it's all in the name of collaboration. [don't forget that!] :) "This RSA stuff" is pretty darn good though. can't lie.
@JRD123456 Yeah, but the cool picture with narrative is good mediation. However, RSA "symposium" stuff is overshadowed by TED's 15-minute rule (or whatever it is).
I am an American so I am not very qualified to speak on British politics, but I would warn against getting too carried away with making politics and politicians more local. Local elections are often more corrupt, have lower turnout, and voters are less-informed for a variety of reasons. How many Americans can name their congressional representatives, or what their policy goals are? Why oh why do we vote for judges and sheriffs?
@greengringo2003 They don't necessarily believe it to be true. They're merely making the observation that MODERN SOCIETY believes this, (through the "fraud and suppression of sceptics" as you put), and then comment on the fact that even though they believe this is a crisis and something should be done, they still don't do much about it. The flaw of society (for this particular argument) isn't in ignorance, just in inaction for a particular belief.
@rh001YT in the paper they assume average as those above the 50% mark or mid point on the bell curve- I'll try and find the original paper but there's so much research on this! The point is not really about drivers anyway it's that we perceive the world through certain filters and biases and what the guy is saying is that the system doesn't take these into account. I'm sure the Indians are wonderful drivers-I'm a little confused about the relevance in this case though :)
and i hope it does cause i feel like the 11 and half years of school i have done have done nothing for me... cause teachers trying to learn how the computer works kids just searching up the answers online bla bla bla
In the 70s, we questioned the wisdom of operant conditioning. Today, we seem to have accepted it as a foregone conclusion. It has become pervasive in our institutions, schools and businesses. This has only strengthened our cognitive fallacies. We do what is easy rather than what is right. We seek short term profits over long term planning. Read: Skinner's Utopia: Panacea or Path to Hell?(1971) The social engineering of operant conditioning has been a terrible error with powerful consequences.
@rh001YT People do lie- there are biases and perception effects in there as well. On another note I think these videos are meant to stimulate debate not to be rock solid pronouncements on the state of reality- think of it as a springboard for expanding your knowledge and see if you can prove him wrong with scientific evidence if you feel you are correct. I hope you enjoy learning stuff- as for me I have stuff to do so goodbye and good luck. Knowledge is power :) the world is an amazing place
@rh001YT The Anna Sudstrom paper is about how perceptions of driving are related to reality not about the perceptions themselves- I sent you there because I thought you might be interested in the slightly tangential research. If the study was done well then personal definitions of average will have been controlled for- psychologists are quite good at this now! Psychology research is a minefield I suggest you do some research and read carefully-abstracts are pretty useless I'm afraid.
and how important is the creativity and effort that goes into the drawings ? is it enough to just draw what is being said literally, if this teaching method became "mass produced" would the lower quality ,less inspired, drawing make this teaching method lose it's edge ? also is this a gimmick effect ? this is new and revolutionnary now, but after you watched 20 of these courses do you go back to the same comprehension and data retention rates of plain lectures and technical reading ?
@theRSAorg you should put on tags - "lady gaga" "justin beiber" and "big brother" to get more views. but then i am not sure if their IQ is sufficient enough to understand this.
@Richardscjj A perfect example of the mental limitations of your type: Just today in India, Anna Hazare (age 75) dictated his will to Parliament after 10 days of indefinate fast - the entire nation has erupted in celebration. What was the role of "science" in all of that? Parliament had resisted citing the logic & reason that it can't submit to the will of individuals or sub-groups, but must conduct debate (business) as usual. Anna & the masses saw though the game, and played to win. No Logic.
@jimmyt3411 governments in all countries have and still do intervene in the economy to a large degree, with varying levels of success. It is a gross oversimplification to state that government intervention in the economy is always a bad thing. Indeed, look at the growth rates curently enjoyed in China, where government intervention in the economy is much more intrusive than the US and Europe.
@rh001YT The 90% thing is called optimism bias and is a well documented psychological effect (try google scholar, there are loads of articles). That this is statistically impossible is based on the assumption that the distribution of how skilled drivers are is a bell curve distribution which is reasonable There is a good review of methodology used to study drivers' self perceptions (Anna Sundström, Self-assessment of driving skill A review from a measurement perspective) if you are interested :)
@thisissimple99 This isn't power to the people, this is power to responsible people, which is a whole other thing. Perhaps just being of age isn't enough to gain the right to vote.
@Richardscjj Yes, if you "assume" that "average" means some middle portion of the bell curve, but who is to decide how wide that middle portion should be? If someone drives rather slowly due to lower skill, but is courteous & does not cause any accidents, then that person would claim to be a good driver even though skill level is low, so definition of "good driver" requires a complex weighted system of analysis. Thus Indians are very skilled drivers yet the accident rate is rather high.
@Richardscjj Notice how you insert the words "assume" & "most" - undefined words in the context. And so no, it does not "sound reasonable", though you may like the sound of it. You have definitions in mind that you assume are universal - a bit vain I would say. And no, 90% did not reckon they are better than most people, rather they claimed (did not reckon) to be better than "average", their own personal definition of "average" in the driving context. You change words - recast the past .
@rh001YT Wow. where to start, ok let's start at the beginning then. If I ask you if you are above average at something what do you assume? I think most people assume that means do you think that you are better than most people at it. Does that sound reasonable? so the point that the study found was that 90% of people reckon they are better than most people at driving. Maybe they are? the study didn't look at actual driving and doesn't claim to because that's not the point.
@SubSurreal tells me that we are the minority and should somehow organize to finally change the f' in system. not profit is the goal but freedom for all, made possible through technology.
@rh001YT Look up perception effects in google scholar please before you decide whether I use language correctly-they are well documented and accepted as facts I'm afraid. Perhaps some more research on your part would let you build an argument based on science. As for the word 'wonderful' I apologise if you found that patronising or cowardly I was merely trying to take the issue off the table. Obviously it's something you have strong feelings about- I honestly couldn't care less.
@fallenvirgo05 dont be mad, this could really be a myth. research and reevaluate. dont believe anything but get the information. be the guy questioning your own thoughts. thats when ull begin to see the truth
@stevehayes13 Hi: I mean that 90% of USA drivers are better than the average driver on Earth. I am basing that on low number of significant auto accidents per mile of auto travel. My larger point is that RSA is a bunch of phony-baloney, & devoid of critical thinking, though they posture themselves as critical thinkers. I went on to mention that "good" is a value judgement, and that actually the drivers in India are far more skilled that USA drivers, though they have more significant accidents.
@Richardscjj But are the respondents provided with the definition fo "average" & fully informed as to the metrics used to create the bell curve in question - probably not. You don't see the game. You don't use language correctly or carefully: no one percieves the world via filters or biases, except for instance color blindness or glaucoma would be visual filters. Life is a game, & everyone plays to win, & many are bad players, and lying is allowed, & sanction for being caught lying varies.
Since the expansion of suffrage, society has been a competition between the level(ish) playing field of Democracy (representing the citizens) and the entrenched money-power elites of Plutocracy (representing the ruling hierarchy). Failing to centre the lecture on this fundamental context turns an instructional video into something more like a sermon. It's not addressing the real-world. It ends up misdirecting the audience, despite the interesting content, by deconstructing second or third order effects.
In the USA, it is probably true that 90% are good drivers, in fact the number may be higher. In India, there are many more bad drivers in terms of accidents and running over pedestrians, yet actually their driving skills are better due to the chaos of traffic there. This RSA persentation is typical of RSA's, in that wrong premises are adopted early on as right, and then the structure built on the wrong premises to support the desired conclusions. So very dishonest.
He's got some good points, but third way stuff as it manifested in Britain was colourless and sterile. However, now we've got the bleedin' Tories maybe it wasn't so bad...
Have seen a few RSA videos now and have come to the conclusion that one must be a creepy, wannabe dictator - who of course knows what's best for everyone else - in order to agree with this garbage. It's amazing how some pretty drawings can make people so eager to agree with totalitarian concepts and so willing to turn their lives over to self anointed overseers. The arrogance and self importance of these RSA videos is breathtaking.
I was prepared to listen to this until he said that we evolved and are not bad people - at which point I realised he was talking complete rubbish and watched something else.
@asipodroks well, you see, typical of rsa propaganda, false or flaky assumptions are treated as fact - that's a common technique. It all depends on how "average" is defined, and here it is not. Imagine a class where 90% of students were straight A, 10% imbeciles. Then the average gpa would be below straight A, and 90% would be above average. Anyway, how could the "average" driving skill be defined? Indians are more skillful drivers, yet have a terribly high accident rate due to recklessness.
Oh he's a socialist. No one cares about being an individual now, just let everyone make the choices for you i guess. Don't mind me I'll just stay here in my bunker.
@Richardscjj You're sure Indians are "wonderful" drivers? What a people-pleaser, cowardly choice of adjective. Why would you say that, hmmm? You don't understand value-judgement - is "good" defined as skillful, even acrobatic vehicular handling? Or low accident rate? Or high courtesy ranking? If you are a Westerner, you would be too terrified to drive in India. The "relevance" is value-judgement - how a word is defined, and how different people have different defintions for a word due to value.
A lot of this is good. But some of it is ball shit, yet this guy tells it like it's a fact, by saying stuff like 'we have evolved that way'. Persuasive but so is propaganda. Need to look at this with an objective frame of mind.
@Richardscjj "I couldn't care less" - well now perhaps some honesty has leaked out of you. Yes you use language incorrectly - you confuse value judgements with matters than can be defined w/ little or no judgement. "Science" blah blah. I'm an engineer, I know about science AND value judgement, primarily because I have to translate fuzzy marketing dept ideas into a working tangible product. "Science!" totally over-rated, and often a favorite mask of slave-moralists.
VERY misleading title...and even more misleading since they draw the classic picture of the brain along with mathematics and art at the beginning, to THEN start to talk about politics.
I am up at 5 in the morning because I couldn't stop watching these...
@ShawnPMr I found it to be very refreshing. This is one of the first videos that had a clear answer that didn't pander to some extreme desire to change the entire system, but actually bring a balance to both sides, which is what is needed to truly run a working government.
If at the very least I'll be happy to watch Mathew Taylor's videos with a critical mind and an appreciation for some non-anti-(insert subject) here views, that get down and come up with suggestions.
I wish the RSA ruled the world. Dedicated to the cause of highlighting the institutional wrongs, tracing their causes to psychological, sociological or economical factors, you seek to understand why inequalities and inconsistencies exist in every facet of our society. With a overall tone of compassion for the disadvantaged, and the human race as a whole, RSA seems dedicated to understanding the greatest problems human society as a whole faces. Knowledge is power.
Thank you! This is our CE's annual lecture from last year. I think it's a pretty damn good argument too. Really appreciate the feedback. Becca :)
This one is SOOO much better than the Jeremy Rifkin one. And he's making a lot of the same points. Amazing how much more palitable an idea is when it's argued honestly in terms of specifics.
I can't wait to watch these videos again in fifty years.
These videos are great. Watching an infographic being drawn with explanations at the same time really sink the message in
Wow. Can't believe this has only 1200 views. The argument is well thought out and the animated medium is thoroughly entertaining and er... illustrative :-) !
God, I love these RSA videos so much... what an amazingly creative way to present these topics.
Astounding...the visuals definitely help with understanding the principles of the speakers. I am very impressed. I've watched 5 videos in a row and am now a subscriber.
this may be one of the best things i have seen on youtube
i actually had a step 4, use the internet to produce a graph that deals with problems that we need solved, where people can add their suggestions to the graph, with a pros section, a cons section, and a ideas section, each ideas section would also have this itself, the resulting computational power for solving problems would be massive, so long as the government makes an effort to keep the public involved and keep the data heavily protected.
This RSA stuff is better than TEDtalks!
It's talking about left political views and right political views and how instead of being baited by the politics of instant gratification, we should become more responsible, educated citizens and take advantage of the fact that we are living in a democracy.
People see the title looking for some interesting facts about the brain, but the message is really interesting.
Most excellent. I'm sharing this in many different places.
I enjoy the RSA videos, especially the animated ones. I particularly enjoyed this lecture. Unfortunately the photography and editing are obvious enough to interfere with the presentation. Otherwise, thank you and I'm glad that I discovered the RSA.
This needs a hell of a loit more views. Amazing stuff!
Excellent talk!
3:22 Best part. Forget the rest of the video.
You are an amazing artist!
Such mind enriching stuff! Keep it up!
"using brains that involved before the invention of the wheel." uh, yeah. those brains invented the wheel ...
Has the research regarding "visual-spacial" learners and "audio-sequential" learners been considered in the offering of content via these types of videos? The videos do cover both learner types so well. Love your work!
Is there a video about the creative process used in the making of the RSA videos?
@etzel33 Yay, thank you for such lovely observations! :) Becca
Very enlightening.
These vids are great
Maybe sometime in the future there will be "left brain friendly" countries and "right brain friendly countries" and people will decide in which country they would like to live depending on their personality and world view.
@Richardscjj The abstract for the Anna Sudstrom paper supports my postion, that various "studies" of "self-assessed" driving skills are full of probs rendering them rather useless, amongst those probs a diff between what the respondent thinks is the defintion of 'average" and what the researchers have in mind. Don't you see the game? The researchers actually know that there will be defintional differences, and then they pretend not to know. Lying is so common that most humans lie about lying.
I absolutely love your videos. Thank you for sharing such informative videos in a very captivating and artistic way! -z-
@rh001YT You're misunderstanding what they're saying here. They're saying that according to the poll that they must be referencing (assuming it actually exists) 90% of people said they were better drivers, which is mathematically impossible. Also, the poll was most likely more specific to drivers within similar areas, to avoid "US citizens are better drivers" rhetoric. I don't know this for a fact, however. I just think they were implying that 90% of us cannot be above average.
Difference between Democracy and Dictatorship is that in Dictatorship you know you don't have a choice. In Democracy you believe you have.
With that being said, Democracy is a form of government in which people believe they are not governed by Aristocrats.
@etzel33 why even compare? both are good, and each of the presentations, lectures should be valued on their own and not by where and from whom they came from.
I really enjoyed this video and I agree with everything but only given that such a mechanism is initiated in a society, my worry is that today those who decide if to establish such a mechanism are those "damaged" by a redistribution of power... what could the intermediate scenario be, one that brings us to initiate such a change?
@cyphi1 so am I, yo guys are doing a great job....
are you guys making any new ones soon ???
i like it! actually ... i love it!!!
@DigitalIslandboy I have to keep hitting refresh until it does.
Fine stuff! Who'da thunk I could reconsider democracy! But, I've always thought any system would work if it were comprised of the right people. Even democracy ... I'd have to admit.
@SubSurreal Maybe I need to tag and try and flag this one up better :) Becca
I wonder what would happen if someone tried to explain something else
(maybe the venturi effect, or how a washing machine works) using this graphical method
would the increase in comprehension of the student increase to justify the extra effort involved in this teaching method ?
Why does the sound sometimes not play on this video?
@etzel33 I agree they are better than TEDtalks, and are more visually entertaining! Which also makes it easier to follow what the speaker is talking about.
@etzel33 Some of the RSA stuff IS from TED...
@etzel33 Not everything is a competition. The great thing about intellectual presentation of theories and ideas is that it's all in the name of collaboration. [don't forget that!]
:)
"This RSA stuff" is pretty darn good though. can't lie.
lol, at 2:04 the bunny thing says mr pickle
@JRD123456 Yeah, but the cool picture with narrative is good mediation. However, RSA "symposium" stuff is overshadowed by TED's 15-minute rule (or whatever it is).
I am an American so I am not very qualified to speak on British politics, but I would warn against getting too carried away with making politics and politicians more local. Local elections are often more corrupt, have lower turnout, and voters are less-informed for a variety of reasons. How many Americans can name their congressional representatives, or what their policy goals are? Why oh why do we vote for judges and sheriffs?
@greengringo2003 They don't necessarily believe it to be true. They're merely making the observation that MODERN SOCIETY believes this, (through the "fraud and suppression of sceptics" as you put), and then comment on the fact that even though they believe this is a crisis and something should be done, they still don't do much about it. The flaw of society (for this particular argument) isn't in ignorance, just in inaction for a particular belief.
@koolchloe Thank you so much - please do... :)
That was supposed to be @methanegasses
inspiring :]
What the hell does this have to do with right brain/left brain?
@rh001YT in the paper they assume average as those above the 50% mark or mid point on the bell curve- I'll try and find the original paper but there's so much research on this! The point is not really about drivers anyway it's that we perceive the world through certain filters and biases and what the guy is saying is that the system doesn't take these into account. I'm sure the Indians are wonderful drivers-I'm a little confused about the relevance in this case though :)
and i hope it does cause i feel like the 11 and half years of school i have done have done nothing for me... cause teachers trying to learn how the computer works kids just searching up the answers online bla bla bla
In the 70s, we questioned the wisdom of operant conditioning. Today, we seem to have accepted it as a foregone conclusion. It has become pervasive in our institutions, schools and businesses. This has only strengthened our cognitive fallacies. We do what is easy rather than what is right. We seek short term profits over long term planning. Read: Skinner's Utopia: Panacea or Path to Hell?(1971) The social engineering of operant conditioning has been a terrible error with powerful consequences.
@rh001YT People do lie- there are biases and perception effects in there as well. On another note I think these videos are meant to stimulate debate not to be rock solid pronouncements on the state of reality- think of it as a springboard for expanding your knowledge and see if you can prove him wrong with scientific evidence if you feel you are correct. I hope you enjoy learning stuff- as for me I have stuff to do so goodbye and good luck. Knowledge is power :) the world is an amazing place
@rh001YT The Anna Sudstrom paper is about how perceptions of driving are related to reality not about the perceptions themselves- I sent you there because I thought you might be interested in the slightly tangential research. If the study was done well then personal definitions of average will have been controlled for- psychologists are quite good at this now! Psychology research is a minefield I suggest you do some research and read carefully-abstracts are pretty useless I'm afraid.
i think you will find it is spelt "juries" not jurys
and how important is the creativity and effort that goes into the drawings ?
is it enough to just draw what is being said literally, if this teaching method became "mass produced" would the lower quality ,less inspired, drawing make this teaching method lose it's edge ?
also is this a gimmick effect ? this is new and revolutionnary now, but after you watched 20 of these courses do you go back to the same comprehension and data retention rates of plain lectures and technical reading ?
@etzel33 It really is...
Does this video's topic match it's title? Democracy? Or l/r brain?
I've wanted to see an interesting video about brain, I've watched a boring video about democracy.
@theRSAorg you should put on tags - "lady gaga" "justin beiber" and "big brother" to get more views. but then i am not sure if their IQ is sufficient enough to understand this.
@Richardscjj A perfect example of the mental limitations of your type: Just today in India, Anna Hazare (age 75) dictated his will to Parliament after 10 days of indefinate fast - the entire nation has erupted in celebration. What was the role of "science" in all of that? Parliament had resisted citing the logic & reason that it can't submit to the will of individuals or sub-groups, but must conduct debate (business) as usual. Anna & the masses saw though the game, and played to win. No Logic.
@jimmyt3411 governments in all countries have and still do intervene in the economy to a large degree, with varying levels of success. It is a gross oversimplification to state that government intervention in the economy is always a bad thing. Indeed, look at the growth rates curently enjoyed in China, where government intervention in the economy is much more intrusive than the US and Europe.
the guy spelled constituency wrong.
@SubSurreal that cats are cute?
@rh001YT The 90% thing is called optimism bias and is a well documented psychological effect (try google scholar, there are loads of articles). That this is statistically impossible is based on the assumption that the distribution of how skilled drivers are is a bell curve distribution which is reasonable There is a good review of methodology used to study drivers' self perceptions (Anna Sundström, Self-assessment of driving skill A review from a measurement perspective) if you are interested :)
@SubSurreal That cats are cute?
@thisissimple99 This isn't power to the people, this is power to responsible people, which is a whole other thing. Perhaps just being of age isn't enough to gain the right to vote.
@Richardscjj Yes, if you "assume" that "average" means some middle portion of the bell curve, but who is to decide how wide that middle portion should be? If someone drives rather slowly due to lower skill, but is courteous & does not cause any accidents, then that person would claim to be a good driver even though skill level is low, so definition of "good driver" requires a complex weighted system of analysis. Thus Indians are very skilled drivers yet the accident rate is rather high.
roo much camera movement! confusing!
@Richardscjj Notice how you insert the words "assume" & "most" - undefined words in the context. And so no, it does not "sound reasonable", though you may like the sound of it. You have definitions in mind that you assume are universal - a bit vain I would say. And no, 90% did not reckon they are better than most people, rather they claimed (did not reckon) to be better than "average", their own personal definition of "average" in the driving context. You change words - recast the past .
@etzel33 TEDtalks are too freaking loong.
@rh001YT Wow. where to start, ok let's start at the beginning then. If I ask you if you are above average at something what do you assume? I think most people assume that means do you think that you are better than most people at it. Does that sound reasonable? so the point that the study found was that 90% of people reckon they are better than most people at driving. Maybe they are? the study didn't look at actual driving and doesn't claim to because that's not the point.
@etzel33 Totally!
@aquapan *facepalm*
@SubSurreal
tells me that we are the minority and should somehow organize to finally change the f' in system.
not profit is the goal but freedom for all, made possible through technology.
I don't get it.
I like the video content format and ideas...but this particular videotitle is not appropriately suited to the content...
@rh001YT Look up perception effects in google scholar please before you decide whether I use language correctly-they are well documented and accepted as facts I'm afraid. Perhaps some more research on your part would let you build an argument based on science. As for the word 'wonderful' I apologise if you found that patronising or cowardly I was merely trying to take the issue off the table. Obviously it's something you have strong feelings about- I honestly couldn't care less.
@fallenvirgo05
dont be mad, this could really be a myth. research and reevaluate. dont believe anything but get the information.
be the guy questioning your own thoughts. thats when ull begin to see the truth
@stevehayes13 Hi: I mean that 90% of USA drivers are better than the average driver on Earth. I am basing that on low number of significant auto accidents per mile of auto travel. My larger point is that RSA is a bunch of phony-baloney, & devoid of critical thinking, though they posture themselves as critical thinkers. I went on to mention that "good" is a value judgement, and that actually the drivers in India are far more skilled that USA drivers, though they have more significant accidents.
@Richardscjj But are the respondents provided with the definition fo "average" & fully informed as to the metrics used to create the bell curve in question - probably not. You don't see the game. You don't use language correctly or carefully: no one percieves the world via filters or biases, except for instance color blindness or glaucoma would be visual filters. Life is a game, & everyone plays to win, & many are bad players, and lying is allowed, & sanction for being caught lying varies.
Since the expansion of suffrage, society has been a competition between the level(ish) playing field of Democracy (representing the citizens) and the entrenched money-power elites of Plutocracy (representing the ruling hierarchy). Failing to centre the lecture on this fundamental context turns an instructional video into something more like a sermon. It's not addressing the real-world. It ends up misdirecting the audience, despite the interesting content, by deconstructing second or third order effects.
In the USA, it is probably true that 90% are good drivers, in fact the number may be higher. In India, there are many more bad drivers in terms of accidents and running over pedestrians, yet actually their driving skills are better due to the chaos of traffic there. This RSA persentation is typical of RSA's, in that wrong premises are adopted early on as right, and then the structure built on the wrong premises to support the desired conclusions. So very dishonest.
You lost me at the "man made global warming" myth. You want to stop global warming? THEN BLOW UP THE SUN!
He's got some good points, but third way stuff as it manifested in Britain was colourless and sterile. However, now we've got the bleedin' Tories maybe it wasn't so bad...
@marcdaddy33
Have seen a few RSA videos now and have come to the conclusion that one must be a creepy, wannabe dictator - who of course knows what's best for everyone else - in order to agree with this garbage. It's amazing how some pretty drawings can make people so eager to agree with totalitarian concepts and so willing to turn their lives over to self anointed overseers.
The arrogance and self importance of these RSA videos is breathtaking.
Two Words: God No.
I was prepared to listen to this until he said that we evolved and are not bad people - at which point I realised he was talking complete rubbish and watched something else.
@asipodroks well, you see, typical of rsa propaganda, false or flaky assumptions are treated as fact - that's a common technique. It all depends on how "average" is defined, and here it is not. Imagine a class where 90% of students were straight A, 10% imbeciles. Then the average gpa would be below straight A, and 90% would be above average. Anyway, how could the "average" driving skill be defined? Indians are more skillful drivers, yet have a terribly high accident rate due to recklessness.
Oh he's a socialist. No one cares about being an individual now, just let everyone make the choices for you i guess. Don't mind me I'll just stay here in my bunker.
@Richardscjj You're sure Indians are "wonderful" drivers? What a people-pleaser, cowardly choice of adjective. Why would you say that, hmmm? You don't understand value-judgement - is "good" defined as skillful, even acrobatic vehicular handling? Or low accident rate? Or high courtesy ranking? If you are a Westerner, you would be too terrified to drive in India. The "relevance" is value-judgement - how a word is defined, and how different people have different defintions for a word due to value.
A lot of this is good. But some of it is ball shit, yet this guy tells it like it's a fact, by saying stuff like 'we have evolved that way'. Persuasive but so is propaganda. Need to look at this with an objective frame of mind.
@Richardscjj "I couldn't care less" - well now perhaps some honesty has leaked out of you. Yes you use language incorrectly - you confuse value judgements with matters than can be defined w/ little or no judgement. "Science" blah blah. I'm an engineer, I know about science AND value judgement, primarily because I have to translate fuzzy marketing dept ideas into a working tangible product. "Science!" totally over-rated, and often a favorite mask of slave-moralists.
VERY misleading title...and even more misleading since they draw the classic picture of the brain along with mathematics and art at the beginning, to THEN start to talk about politics.