Why people fall for misinformation - Joseph Isaac
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- How does a fact become a misconception? Dig into the world of misinformation to see how facts can become distorted and misleading.
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In 1901, David Hänig published research that led to what we know today as the taste map: an illustration that divides the tongue into four separate areas. It has since been published in textbooks and newspapers. There is just one problem: the map is wrong. So how do misconceptions like this spread, and what makes a fake fact so easy to believe? Joseph Isaac dives into the world of misinformation.
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Nobody is "immune" to misinformation, doesn't matter the level of scholar knowledge you have.
This is why we should always ask our sources and assumptions, even things we thought we knew well.
Right brother
Well said.
my math teachers were always giving me steps for solving problems without explaining why we do this and I found tons of flaws in their thinking
@@mohammadazad8350 u need a different math teacher
“Take the world from another point of view”
- R.Feynman
"70% of all stats are made up, including this one."
They had us in the first half ngl
Kurt E. Clothier likewise, adding a random decimal to the end
like 77.5%
@@snowylilac371 actually you might want to stray away from 7 as well. Notice how ted, Kurt E. Clothier, and you, used 7 as a "random" number? 7 seems more random because its prime, its not in the middle between 1-10, but also not one less than ten or one more than ten. So it seems random, but conciously avoid using too many 7s
*83%
It's always 83%
@@dani.lepore9410 82.67% is always my go to, but i guess you can round it up
They stole it from a talk between Elon musk and alibaba's owner
Never stop learning because Ted-Ed never stops teaching 👍
What a comment👌🏾👏
Alec benjamin's fan💙
i love your dp. Alec Benjamin💙
Very true
True 😆😅
If it's easy to digest, it'll most likely get spread whether it's true or false
Clints Random Channel that’s why it’s hard to change someone’s opinion on anything
For a huge concentration of mistruths look up: political campaigns and psychology...
One big mistruth is the calorie in - calorie out model on losing weight made popular by coca-cola et al. Calories are a huge simplification of how the body uses energy from food and don't take into account hormonal or gut bacteria, and they assume all weight loss or weight gain is equally bad.
it fake news and worst is when it was teaching in school... that was before internet...
Including this comment?
"A lie becomes the truth if you lie enough times"
- Master Oogway
ZOCCOK I always see him quoted even though he's a cartoon. Truly great writers.
You can't forget Iroh
Imagine if teded acually heart this comment thinking master oogway is a teal man
That's precisely how the statement you said became true.
This reminds me that UK fought for Democracy in WW1 and WW2,
*Coughs in Colonialism*
"Misconceptions can result in bitter taste in all parts of the tongue".Give Ted ed a medal
So basically, things got Lost in Translation.
Partly yes, I think so
Google translate doesn't do its job perfectly y'know?
ja
And this is how trinity was misinterpreted from the Bible (When the Hebrew/Aramaic language was translated into Greek/Roman)
@@tawfekbaseel7377 True, but Human Translate doesn't always do its job perfectly either. At least with multiple uses of Human Translate, we can expect more accuracy and reliability when they all agree on something. The issues come in when they don't agree, though, since certain things are hard to translate. And then there are those versions of Human Translate that haven't been entirely updated to Fluent level...
"Did you know that 70% of all statistics are made up?..."
Me : Noooo...?
"...including this one."
Im so naïve :(
I feeel betrayed!!! :-( :D
Naïve nerd
Lol its not made up. Its just not the statistics of the entire population and everything.
So its better than nothing to give u a perspective
lol the same thinking :DD
We did the "taste map" experiment when we were in school and when some students pointed out that they could taste every flavor in other places on the tongue, the teacher said that they must be doing it wrong.
Same here. We were just mistaken, supposedly
Sometimes people don’t try to read beyond what they know or heard first.
"they must be doing it wrong" they must have been born incorrectly or smth smh teacher
The tongue map is a common misconception but then also our teachers teach the wrong thing
Examples?
Trueee
But when I put a Warhead candy against my cheek and rub the side of my tongue on it, it feels especially sour. That same feeling doesn't happen with other parts of my tongue.
Kurt E. Clothier google the Nocebo Effect
Its crazy how that tongue theory was thought when i was in middle school, thats not that long ago, imagine what other things we're learning that is just an unfortunate misconception?
i actually experimented myself when i learned of it sometimes from kindergarten to 2nd grade. I also came to the conclusion it was complete BS
@@JacobRy I read it in a hardbound encyclopedia (when they still existed), also experimented on myself and called the map BS.
@@shishi6799 yep. Nothing like experimenting as a kid :)
I experimented this as a kid too, concluded that it wasn't accurate about my tongue
@@IRosamelia yeah me too
Because they see something on Facebook and think "I don't know if this is true, but I also don't know if it isn't true, so I'm going to share it JUUUSSSTT in case it MIGHT be true." *shares*
This video yet again proves that TED-Ed videos teach us more in one small video than school ever did.
Sadly true, our educational system is rigged.
Totally agree!
I even still have those wrong taste map in highschool textbook smh
That's why I hate it when books tells us about information with no explanation or proof and this is one of the main reasons I love math more than any other subject
I really would like to agree with you, but then I realized without school, i couldn't read / understand your comment at all. Greetings from germany :)
"The only problem with this is it's wrong."
That is very well put.
I can hear the raged noises coming from the flat earthers.
Oh no
Oh no
Oh no
Or vice versa may be? Who knows ? I'm not flat earther btw
@Valentin de las Carreras difficult to tell these days that what's sarcasm or what's reality...but ahem ahem
“70% of all statistics are made up, including this one.”
Well played, Ted-Ed, well played.
Edit: Thanks for the heart, Ted-Ed!
you got heart from ted-ed
Gotcha
Naomi taylor Not sure what this has to do with anything, but okay.
Why did u edit it, the heart is gone now
I don’t see the heart lol
I had read this in my school book. After I came home, I tried putting sugar at back of my tongue and could still taste it. I thought maybe I did something wrong and some sugar fell on front side of the tongue. I tried it many times but every time I could taste it. I asked my teacher/parents about it but I don't remember anybody giving good answer. Finally I know the truth after 15+ years. Thanks.
"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it".
Some peeps still believe in false information in this modern age :'(
Everyone does, no shame in it. Only shame in not challenging your own beliefs
@@hilkmeister1382 right
The whole Indian govt is in power only because of misinformation
@@samrashafaq1717 Dont feel ashamed, it happens all over the world...
It's difficult to distinguish truth from lies when you're not expert on the subject, since even scientists get it wrong sometimes, also the internet is full of lies.
My friend tested out the tongue thing himself by eating sugar on different parts of the tongue. The teacher got mad at him when he told her this.
my guess is because people need to confirm their thoughts and get a ‘nod’ on their thoughts, so they feel they do the right thing. and sometimes the information is just not enough, and people are feeling sad that they can’t confirm what other people are trying to confirm, so they give a quick possibility to them, but when they gave it, people who receive the input are impatient and taking the info as fact rather than a possibility, and for them the info is credible (even though it’s not), and they spread the info as fact to other people, and it spreads. and misinformation getting bigger.
and social media take parts in spreading it a step further, because people could easily inform more misinformation like they could easily inform valid information.
gotta come back to see if my prediction is correct.
edit: so it was about tongue, I got some things right. the media of misinformation turned out to be news and tv (not social media), and turned out umami was the fifth taste. and it mentions a healthy skepticism when it comes to understanding new things which is kinda relate to how I had skepticism about my prediction/guess as it could be correct or not.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
TedEd: Why people fall for misinformation
Me:Because of *cough certain news channels
Fox, slightly cnn
Big small zoom overview
Disinformation and Misinformation sells baby! And keeps people watching - ua-cam.com/video/GFMTif7HNAA/v-deo.html
@@totalwankers8163 "SLIGHTLY?!"
4:55 "did you know that 70% of statistics are made up? including this one!"
hold up what
yeah what im so confused
This just reinforces my conviction to never trust sources that based their information on something written in a language that is not their own. Many things get lost in translation.
One of the reasons why I keep on learning new languages is to finally check the original sources for the things I have learned in school. Right now, I have just been reading 'The Art of War' in Chinese and I have to say that the original source is more fun and a lot simpler. The English version actually contains a lot of interpretation that does not exist in the original text.
Labeling something as “misinformation” has no bearing on its relationship to the truth of a given situation. It is labeled as such because it is not a lie but simply problematic for those who wish it to be perceived as one.
I guess we should take flat earth seriously?
@@sithwolf8017 Propaganda spam bot, answer the question. What is the Covid-related mortality for non-elderly persons with no comorbidities??
“Every lie creates a debt to the truth” - Chernobyl
How did a city speak?
@@fadedpajamas It's a show from HBO. :)
how can an event speak?
lies create a catastrophe that brings down a giant nation (the disaster at Chernobyl in 1986 caused the collapse of Soviet communism five years later)
I've done my research and I challenge you to prove me wrong-
Ted only gives heart to the best comment under 1 hour of upload.
You are a legend. Ted do what you have to do.
You are right... i have also noticed that
In this case, there are two hearts
don’t wanna burst your bubble but i’ve seen 4 hearts i-
False, the comment right under you at the time was made 2 hours after the video was uploaded
People are getting way too comfortable labeling all dissent and opposing data as "misinformation"... that and hypocrisy. Way too comfortable.
Speaking of misconceptions, you said "comprised of" in this video. The simplification of "composed of" and "comprised" into synonyms is a good illustration of the points made above. The words are related but describe two distinct cases: The parts COMPRISE the whole. The whole is COMPOSED OF the parts. Easy litmus test: If you hear "of" after "comprised," it's being used wrong.
That is true indeed!
Let’s just appreciate how each Ted-Ed video is drawn in a different style.
This reminds me of when our teacher was teaching the five senses and corrected the textbook's taste map and taught us this instead.
Finally after almost 16 years my confusion about the tongue map ended here. Thanks Ted.
This animation style is so entertaining to look at. Thank you, TED-Ed :)
My absolute favorite part about this misconception is that you can easily stop believing it by simply tasting something
Flat Earthers be like: "WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! This IS Misconception! Do Your own Research!!!"
The rest of us be like: 🤦♂️
TED ED I just love you 😘❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️....
U r the best teacher and storyteller...
The thing i love about rhis channel is that you can present any aubject in a way that everyone can understand. 🙏
I actually had misconception-inception in regards to the tongue map. I knew that it was a myth that taste is only in certain areas, but I didn't realise there was actually *some* truth to it in terms of sensitivity.
This is why it is detrimental to have an ideology that cannot be criticized, a claim that cannot be questioned or a belief that cannot be ridiculed.
Misconceptions and assumptions flowing all over the world 🌿just why?
Fun fact! one of ted eds pretty old videos actually misinformed us and believed about the 4 taste regions of the tongue. While i dont remember which video is it now, that part of it still lingers in my head.
Found it! 6 years ago, on how sugar affects the brain. While short, it mentions about the sweet tongue receptors! Ted ed grew a lot huh?
Because people want to hear what they want to hear even if it’s wrong and get their egos satisfied. That’s the downfall of modern health with 1000 of fake nonsense on UA-cam
You could be right. Ironical because most people say they want "the truth."
I always interpreted the tongue map as where the tastes are felt most intensely because I was never even taught the concept at school.
I first learned in college that gustatory buds, which are alllll over the tongue’s surface, absorb chemicals in food and communicate with the brain to interpret the flavor. THEN as I was researching on my own, when I observed the map for the first time (didn’t read about it, sometimes I just search for diagrams on google images to study) it was pretty obvious what Hänig meant.
It’s a shame that first thing I learned isn’t taught before the map. If it was, there would be no misconception because it’s common sense.
Recipe of a Best LIe
A well-known fact + a little bit of truth + misconception = A lie that will spread faster than wild fire...
Choosing to learn something new every day will give you a reason to grown and change.
The biggest misconception: The earth is flat
who believes that now
Ted ed is even working in these hard times just to clear our doubts and highlight misconceptions.
BTW thank you team Ted ed
Completely random fact:
The scientific name for brain freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
-SciFacts
The fact that the tounge map is taught in school here makes me question the education system-
Lies comes in easy patterns and digests smoothly. Truth comes in difficult uncomfortable patterns and very uncomfortable to digest. Misconceptions are products of a bored mind.
Moral Of The Story:
Never Ever Believe The Internet.
Cause You’ll Always Find A Lie Somewhere😉!
Misconceptions aren't lies.
Except this misconception is completely unrelated with internet, and is something taught in most schools (at least it was in mine like 8 years ago)
Also Parents: ItS oN FAcEboOK So iT's CoRrECt InFORmaTion
3:50 In my textbook, it had the same taste map and it also said that since the middle part of the tongue doesn't capture any taste, you can't taste anything there. Luckily, I read about the functions of the tongue before so I knew something was off.
''TED-Ed'' you inspired us to begin our UA-cam Channel!🙏
Dude is this the best way you could think of to get views???
Once you said bright side than Ted ed
Really??
People are more accepting to concepts that have a story to tell.
Rather than fact-checking situations or understand complexity of theories themselves.
fantastic concepts with beautifull animations is the hallmark of ted ed .
Can we please talk about how awesome this animation is?
The scary part is the tongue map is still being teach and are still on our textbooks in schools here on my area.
It is completely true. nowadays internet is full of misinformation, it is not just about statistics, everything on the internet appears to be easy to achieve because of unethical advertising, it really makes me angry when people lie on the internet
This video proves how the movie "drisham"works.
TED-Ed is amazing Channel
It is my first time I visited your channel. This video made me subscribe your channel.
Now,I am going check out your more videos.😄
Thank you TED-Ed
Yes you are true.
Where do TED-Ed found this stuff
This channel is amazing
Yes I am also 🤔 How can this happen to three person
@@ssjjj3697 You are also true
The biggest form of misinformation is people telling other people what to think doesn’t matter what the topic is, for most people things only became a problem when someone else told someone it was
Ahh, the perfect time for my favorite quote about this.
"Everything you see on the internet might not be true." - Julius Caesar
Yes, this is overused but I still kind of find it funny.
That's why we need to be verify from diverse sources and perspectives. People simply get overwhelmed by their feelings and beliefs. Everyone at some point does but we need to just step out of our comfort zone of preconceptions and beliefs to explore
Best channel out there isn’t it.
agreed :)
because people WANT to believe, they dont exactly fall for it, mostly
believing feels good to most people, for a myriad reasons
A great time to explain about
Misinformation.....
Many people are spreading wrong information about corona epidemic....
Thanks ted ed....
@SirVixIsVexed Yup. People will believe anything the mainstream media will serve them. And they will come and watch a Ted-ed video and think they're right and smart people.
If you would like the truth?
"Misinformation" does not mean "False information". They are 2 different things.
So defining misinformation for me is lying to me.
Q:Why do people fall for misinformation
A: because they are misinformed
There solved it for ya
I mis-clicked and entered this video. I can safely say, *task failed succesfully*
only ted ed can talk about the meaning of life and end the video with a pun
Wait but how can i be sure this video isn’t misinforming me?
😮
The last time I was this early....I didn't know what to say
Now you know to say you didn't know what to say before
Go away
4:48 I was convinced the dog was going to look up!
I remember "learning" the taste map in school. Lol.. wow.
You are a breath of fresh air amidst the toxicity of Internet :)
*This video has just exposed 5 minute crafts in about 5 minutes*
Ironic?
_I think not_
the last thing you said in the video was CREATIVE
The same happens with Darwin's "theory of evolution", for example, he never used the word "evolution" in his essay.
The background track is stellar!
Flat Earth believer: Am gonna pretend I didn't saw that
see*
i hate how i told repeatedly a sience teacher that the tounge didnt had such arbitrary divisions, she kept telling that i was wrong and in a test she put the question "if a person gets sugar in the back of his toungue, what flavor(s) would he experience?" and the "correct" answer was "sweet and bitter"
Nice try, TED. I’m not buying it.
I'm seriously left with nothing else to do in quarantine that I'm now watching ted-ed.... and I'm enjoying it
Imagine if the video was just a guy saying *Gossip* followed by a mic drop.
The worst thing that makes false information believable? Is because somebody genuinely believes in it.
Love ❤ Ted-ed animations.
Whaaat. Thanks so much Ted Ed. I'm literally doing a presentation on misinformation/disinformation for university soon.
Thanks for the the knowledge
Please add subtitles in your every video, it will help us understand the theory more effectively (for the native learners)
Should be called "Why my grandma says the things she says"
Dude I remember doing tongue map stuff in kindergarten, we even had a little taste test for each of the different areas. However I can’t say the idea was actually that you could only taste certain tastes on certain areas of the tongue, given that it was kindergarten and the curriculum would have been very simplified and presented in a very clear-cut manner.
I always knew that the tounge map wasn't accurate smh
Edit: I was right Ms.P
yup it can be taste tested (not pun)
They fall for misinformation because they think its information
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Let me introduce myself
People want to be the smarter few instead of just people
Why tf is hanig’s animation so cute 😇😂
Didn't HCl burn the tongue or cause damage when it was tested on the subject?
so he used hydrochloric acid for sour when he could've just used lemon juice? isnt that stuff toxic???
isn't that just salty water?
@@zack-ronald259 no its an acidic compound thats made of hydrogen and chlorine
In short people fall for misinformation because we cannot study absolutely everything ourselves. This being the case we rely on outside sources to give us the answers so when one of these outside sources fail to tell us the truth we take that misinformation as fact.
2:17 wouldn't be misinformation if you are living in uk
The problem exacerbated with social media and internet. There is so much news and data that one comes across every day it is tough to trace the origin and do fact check etc. Then there is public perception , many versions of "fake news"/"misinformation" told 100 times with 1000s of people every data eventually turns into fact. In this case many choose conformity over enlightenment.