8 Reasons Why We Believe Bull Crap
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- All of us fall for bull crap, but how can we avoid it? Well, for starters, it's good to be aware of these eight reasons why we fall for bull crap in the first place.
Produced by Matt Beat. All images and videos either created by Matt Beat or found in the public domain or used under fair use guidelines. Music by Electric Needle Room ("Bull Crap," which you can stream here: open.spotify.com/track/42GmMc...)
Additional music by Geographer and Godmode.
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www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic
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www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/cov...
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So why do we believe bull crap? Why can’t we critically think? Or why do we find critical thinking so difficult?
Well, first of all, we mostly rely on our brains to work in default mode.
Our brains are wired to find quick answers
Our brains are constantly trying to look for shortcuts and patterns. There’s even a fancy name for this. Psychologists call this heuristics. Basically, a heuristic is any approach to finding a quick solution or reaching a quick conclusion that is not the best or even rational, but it’s good enough so we can go on with our lives. Heuristics are cognitive shortcuts that we develop through our past experiences, and they come in pretty handy. Imagine having to stress out over every single decision in life. It’d be difficult to get anything done. Enter heuristics, so that our brains can save energy and work more efficiently. But those shortcuts don’t always help us.
So check it out. There was a 2008 CalTech study in which scientists hooked up an fMRI to subjects and presented them with different glasses of wine, labeled from $5 all the way up to $90. However, the scientists never told the subjects that the wine in every single glass was actually the exact same. Subjects tried both wines, and later reported the $90 tasted better. More importantly, the medial prefrontal cortex of their brains for these same folks became more active when they were tasting the wine. This part of the brain is important for decision making, planning future events, and reward comparison. So basically, that part of their brains became active not due to true sensory signals or inherent qualities, but to SIGNALS of quality. Like the labels.
Our brains can fool us due to being stuck in default mode. In fact, brain teasers exist as a way we can escape our default mode.
We don’t evaluate credibility
We often just accept new information as it is given to us. Whether we actually admit it or not, we often automatically trust a source no matter what it is.
Speaking of biases…
We all have confirmation bias
Confirmation bias is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms their existing beliefs or hypotheses. We see it when folks pick information that supports their own views, when they ignore information that hurts their views, but especially looking at how people think when they interact with ambiguous evidence. Let’s pretend your existing beliefs or hypotheses are this bucket. It’s actually fairly easy to take bits of information from all over the place to neatly fit into your bucket. You can even cherry pick data or put a lid on that bucket to keep out all new data. It’s pretty convenient.
One of the most common ways con artists persuade people is by tapping into their existing emotions. Fear and anger especially work well. Getting folks scared or angry is a great way to get them to believe bull crap, as these emotions make them less likely to think rationally.
#psychology #medialiteracy #education
What OTHER reasons do we fall for bull crap?
Wish this dude was my social studies teacher when I was in school lol
Well at least I can teach folks online 🙂
Seriously. Would've made me turn up to class in excitement heh
People not thinking critically is one of the biggest hurdles humanity has had to overcome to reach our current pace of improvement. Please think before you do. Especially if what you're doing significantly affects other people, perhaps even irreversibly so.
I ache every day because of the blindness of my ancestors.
Indeed it is. We will get there eventually. I have hope (for some reason).
We should teach it school even Niel Degrassi Tyson said so
I notice the people who complain about others lack of critical thinking often act as if they are not guilty of the same. Plenty of wars have been started by two groups "critically thinking" and coming up with two different outcomes.
That last sentence actually made me physically cringe.
Most people would rather be told what to think as opposed how to think. And I think another issue is a huge overabundance of information that conflicts with each other, which makes it harder to discern who is telling the truth.
Good points!
Alex Jones fans are scarier than Alex Jones
Alex Jones was right about everything.
@@Saltyahole lmao
Buhuhuhuhahaha!
What's even scarier than that is that Alex Jones has been right more often than not. 🤷🏼♂️
“I DON’T LIKE EM PUTTIN CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT TURN THE FRIGGIN FROGS GAY!!!!”
Heuristics is why some people manage to dress themselves but fall for conspiracies.
Ha, what a great line
@@mattbeatgoeson I am glad you liked it. This video deserves to be on your main channel.
Heuristics isn't even a bad way of thinking. The average person doesn't need to overanalyze every aspect of life to be productive; in fact the opposite is true.
First unit of my social issues class is media literacy, first part of that is cognitive bias. This video is getting shown tomorrow in class. Thanks!
What an honor!
I hope that Raid: Shadow Legends becomes a standard part of school curriculums
Love it, Mr. Beat! Film suggestions:
1) Leon (The Professional)
2) Life is Beautiful
3) Silence of the Lambs
4) Unforgiven
5) Reservoir Dogs
6) Pulp Fiction
7) The Tiger in the Snow
8) The Hunt for Red October
9) True Grit - A comparison (personally, I like the Jeff Bridges version, but hard to beat The Duke!)
10) Alien (The epic series)
Honorable mentions: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Kung Fu Hustle, Rocky Horror Picture Show, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
These films are all in my 5 star category. It is elite status, as the movie must have top ratings in story, plot, writing, casting, costuming, setting, cinematography, watchability, music score and re-watchability (this is the key distinction between a 4 and a 5. If it has everything, but I never need or want to see it again, it is a 4).
Before Netflix wiped out it's original rating system, I had rated OVER 6000 movies.
Phew! Sorry for the long comment!
Thanks Mr. Beat for this very beautiful video. One of my favs. Kindly recommended it to my friends who believes in "bullcrap".
Much appreciated!
You hardly ever find content as good as this on YT. Well done Mr Beat this is vid is a real eye opener. Do your research before you believe folks!
Thanks for the kind words.
@@mattbeatgoeson People who educate like this deserve them! I hope more people see this video in the future
Yes! A new video! Thanks Mr. Beat!
Well thanks for being here. :)
@@mattbeatgoeson And thanks for putting in the effort, time, research and work for it!
@@CobaltChono Well thanks for the kind words. :)
So glad you decided to post on the other channel so we could find this. Media literacy has to be part of the middle and high school curriculum in the future.
I don't know what y'all are doing down there in the US, but I'm in my first year of University (college), and in Canada, media literacy has been a huge part of the curriculum probably since I was in the 6th grade.
This video taught me nothing new - media literacy is its own unit in our high school English courses.
So basically the more you repeat a lie, the more that gullible people will come to believe and accept it!
Watchs 2:30 minutes of the video
Mr. Beat: Why do people believe in bull crap?
Jontron: oh sweet release!
Mr. Beat: This video is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends
Jontron: NOOOOOOO
Good job thinking critically ;)
9:30 Sapper! Waterfort! Congrats for the cameo bros
Thanks Mr. Beat!
Thanks for watching!
Finally a new video, I hope in the future you can upload more frequently to this channel
I plan on it!
Great vid! 👍🏼
Misinformation would certainly be massively cut if people read the article and not just the headline.
An article? From Dr Mercola? Or... did you just take the vaccine?
@@akbarshoed i took the vaccine,, now i see Bigfoot daily, Bigfoot hates the vaccine and his mother !
4:20 blaze it, I mean, I never considered this, from this perspective. But now I think, oh, the fact that placebo & nocebo effects are a thing makes a little more sense now. Far from the full story, but still. Neat. Thx for that.
Good video mr beat! I was wondering, do you have more plans for bands to cover on this channel?
Yep. As I said at the end of the video, the next one should be in a couple weeks. Thanks for your support!
@@mattbeatgoeson Please cover The Mountain Goats 🤞
@@pucktoad baaaa baaaaaa
Seriously tho, you point out something really really important for all people to realize. During my college years, i both theoretically/practically learned how to avoid these biases (to the best of my capabilities)… or mind-shortcuts? Via the scientific method and try and maximise objectivity. Still, outside a “research” environment (where you are constantly aware of human bias/assumptions/shortcuts), I fall prey to these “blind assumptions” all the time. And I am aware this is a thing.... doesn't matter. So for the part of the population that is unaware of these biases.... Ahh, this actually explains like everything that is happening right now.
Also, I think like every human is susceptible to this.
e.g. yeah Newton (arguably) invented calculus.... but he also was under the impression that drinking mercury was an overall desirable thing to do, repeatedly. So he did. Like everyone has their BS beliefs. Thats how we role. So be aware of it at least.
So I am really happy you call out on this. More people should!
...It also (with some given knowledge about algorithmic machine learning), might aid in the realisation that we all massively underestimated the effect of social media algorithms (that just aim to maximise profit, oh, and also the realisation that strong emotions yield more platform activity. Like anger. So, favour more extreme/polarising posts. That'll gain way more moneyyyy I mean user activity.). Where was I? Oh, yeah that those algorithms affect society way way way more than we like to admit. And maybe the question of, should me make laws about the algorithms of these "globally" used platforms.
I am totally getting ahead of myself tho, only at 6:15. Totally expect this video to at least touch upon this.
Sorry for the ramblings. TLDR I am happy you made this video, pointing this out as very few talk about this…
and recently it has been more relevant than ever, I feel.
Edit: after watching it all... yeah. Great video. Thanks!
Thinking, Fast and Slow was an amazing book!!
Outstanding summary
Thank you!
Mr. Beat. Another excellent video.
Thank you William!
Great video, would like to see this on your main channel although I understand reasons why you decided against.
Thank you Quinn. Yeah, it was a tough decision.
I’m the coolest kid at my school because I listen to Electric Needle Room, my favorite underground band from Kansas. When they blow up in 5 years, I can tell everyone I was a fan of them when they were still underground
I swear I need to move to Lawrence, Mr Beat would be a great teacher, shame I can’t even get back to my home country rn
Wait where is your home country?
Osbers 😳
@@mattbeatgoeson US, I was born in New York, moved to London at 6 weeks, moved to Edinburgh a few weeks later, then moved back to New York this June, I went on vacation back to Edinburgh at the beginning of August, and now we can’t get back for ages
How did I just find out on October 18th 2021 that you even have a second channel
Great video!
Thank you John!
7:06 I just wanna point out to (tho it does introduce additional biases) 🎉🎈“Review Articles”🎈🎉 where all that stuff is already compiled in one neat article (and with an overcompensating amount of citations to research study articles).
At least, that often helped me whenever I wanted to grasp the "state of the art" of a certain “new (to me)” field.
Also, if understanding of a specific thing seems lacking, just look up the cited source at that particular part of the article. Really feels like an easy and efficient way to get at least some sense of a topic.... I am rambling yet again...
Please do a brief history on rage against the machine
Short answer: belief bias and confirmation bias.
Was this video supposed to go on your other channel? This channel seems to be music-themed, and I noticed that you have another channel for other topics.
I thought about posting it over there, too, but I was worried I might upset viewers over there, too. Regardless, I appreciate you subscribing. I guess I just need to make music history videos from now on lol
@@mattbeatgoeson mr beat this is a very important video, i believe there’s some people you could upset but they should still be exposed to this
@@mattbeatgoeson Post it on both channels. Who cares
@@mattbeatgoesonGo for it! If it upsets viewers, It means it got to them. Imo anyway.
😊 I'm glad experts can't be manipulated with money into telling you something you should believe by scaring you into believing it
Why do people become experts in something? Also, often experts are often not experts at communication.
I am a boomer and they've been feeding us that line about milk for a long time.
Can you do a brief history on the bee gees please 🙏
I love the media biases chart. It’s why I try to read from AP the most.
No ❤ from the author.
The AP with it's style chart is the king of bias, and to not know that means you got some more learning to do. It is the AP who is constantly re-writing the American language and invented the "you can't say that" that moved from Soviet countries to the US. Keep studying and you will see AP is not your friend if you care about truth and integrity.
There's a show that I like to watch that does a good job of uncovering the very bullshit you see every day. It's called Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
can you make a video on rush?
A Brief History of Linkin Park or KISS would be a good idea for future videos.
Imagine watching *Fox News* for actual news.
That would drain your brain really fast.
Hello Mr. Beat, I was wondering why you put Bjorn Lomborg into scientists who have disputed that global warming is real? As far as I know, he does acknowledge global warming, but argues the way we are trying to solve is not the right way. Claiming that more should be done to increase our consumption of green technologies and reducing prizes on green energy in general instead of globally try and reduce the consumption of fossil fuels. Is it because you think its the wrong approach, maybe we cannot reduce prizes on green energy quick enough and low enough to where its cheaper and therefore naturally higher demand than fossil fuels?
Personally I think it would be great if there were more balance, maybe its because im not informed enough, but it seems there is mostly a movement to reduce our CO2 emissions and not so much on what can be done to increase green energy? Of course, if one goes down the other must go up - balanced as everything should be - maybe its just overall because of low effort taken all around the world against global warming.
Please do a brief history on the history of the Covid19 vaccine. You know, how it's saving everyone's life.
Now that's comedy!
11:49 I knew you had some conspiracy theories of your own 🧐
This isn't a conspiracy theory; this is fact. These scientists DO make a lot of money from their denial of human-induced climate change.
Can you do a brief history video on David Bowie
Absolutely
@@iammrbeat that's great!
please make a brief history of green day or linkin park
9:27 Who’s president DN?
Please note that all of these things are tactics used to manipulate people, but are not inherently invalidating to an idea. Being emotional about a topic such as a murder does not mean that the victim's mother's argument about justice is invalid because it is illogical. We all have bias and that is okay. Being ignorant of bias is the issue; understand that just because you understand in issue one way doesn't make other understandings of the same information inherently invalid. Remember that you are the least reliable source of information in your life.
Great comment!
For people like you and me, it's easy to think critically because building objective knowledge might be what we care most about in the world. For many others, it seems pointless. Things like community, sense of purpose, or achievement are what matters to them.
Proof my ability to free think and discern has always been more important than instant gratification of heretics leading to max efficiency and wisdom.
Alright I confirmed it. Mr Beat is based. Love you my guy.
Yeah I used to like Electric Needle Room, but then they went commercial.
VIV (very important video). Should have like 100x more views. :(
Physicist Richard Feynman once said, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”
Mr Beat give us a Brief History of Weezer
I almost feel like I should wait a few years, since I think they still have some stellar releases ahead of them.
@@mattbeatgoeson wait are you actually a weezer fan? my man
Haven't seen a raid add in a while
They have been aggressively reaching out to me lately lol
By far the worst part about this is the Raid Shadow Legends sponsorship. There is no way Mr. Beat actually plays it. Nobody actually plays it 😂
L statement
The biggest bull crap here is Mr Beat playing Raid Shadow Legends
This is true
Mr. Beat is a hero.
Do a Green Day brief history
A Brief history of AC/DC?
Ok so I know this is out of the blue and this band is not too old because they still make songs but started back in I think around the 2000s and I dont know if you take request but can you do the history of volbeat I love them and have known them my entire life they are pretty cool and is called the rock version of elvis but the made a warriors call and still counting and it was from a time when I was living with my mother and my papa who is now away from me and it's from a time when they did not do bad stuff and ofc when they sold illegal stuff and stole and I would have to go along with my sister who know hates me but I'm obsessed with them because of how it reminds me of my papa I love him so much and when my family tells me he uses people I get really hurt buy I hope you read this and maby make a video about how they were formed but of course you might not see this i will check everyday to see if you make it even if you dont I'll still like your channle thank you...thank you.
Neat
A brief history of: Green Day?
I have argued a lot with creationists, and it feels like they are the culmination of every point raised in the video.
A brief history of daft punk.
2:58
Try running the wine test in the Netherlands, the dutch would had said the $5 would taste the best 🤣 after a cetrain amount (a lot of) dutch people taste the hurt in their wallet 🤣 a common conversation is about things someone bought so cheap you won't believe it 🤣
An easy short hand to tell if something is true or not:
If I agree with it, it’s probably BS
Confirmation bias media is good business
You're darn right it is.
A brief history of Alice in chains?
I wish I could be smart
You are smart
@The Beat Goes On I Request to make a video about MICHAEL JACKSON plsssss!!!???
History of Led Zeppelin please
The letter E I guess.
Good video. Bigfoot is 100% real, though.
Please do Pink Floyd I beg of you
Nobody believes their beliefs are wrong. We can’t choose what we believe.
Well, we _can_ choose how we evaluate new information.
More people need to see this video
MR M THANKS FOR LIFTING ME OUT OF POVERTY
why?
Mr. Beat will surely go on !
I'm trying lol
@@mattbeatgoeson XD
Are you Mr Beat?
11:34, From my understanding (and it's limited and biased) the reason the scientific community overwhelmingly attributes climate change to humans is due to all the models only accounting for the UV input from the Sun (excluding the majority of the electromagnetic spectrum)
Obviously, this should be easy to prove or debunk right? What's more important, making sure we're right or making sure we're not all wrong?
Yes, what you said is easy to disprove. Here we go: if scientists were only factoring in some of the EM radiation (and you haven't given any evidence to suggest they are) this would throw calculations off, but not regarding a CHANGE in the climate as this error would apply across time.
Or it could be that the scientific community is bigger than climate scientists and thus includes a bunch of people just guessing instead of those who work with the actual data, since we rare are shown what the climatologists and meteorologists have to say on the issue, instead we get, like you said, "the scientific community" and their thoughts.
Or it could be that models reliability is far from ideal and admitting that would endanger countless jobs. Models are used because they are cheaper and safer, not because they are more reliable. The real world test is the only ones that matter in the end.
Or it could be that going against the political grain will without a doubt affect people's funding to proceed.
Or it could be the rampant fraudulent work being cranked out and the growing number of failed "peer reviews" that were designed to catch stuff, but were turned into assurances to keep professors published and thereby creating an industry filled with corruption that relies on compliance or else the integrity monster will wipe it all out and all the jobs along with it in the review industry and the professors relying on it to keep their jobs.
"Easy to prove or debunk" in the sense of testing or in the sense of moving people invested in the outcome? They are far from the same thing.
A shift in topics?
Well, I have other culture videos on this channel as well.
@@mattbeatgoeson I was expecting the usual articles on music/movie which you are good at
"Why do we fall for bullcrap?"
*is sponsored by one of the shittiest mobile games plaguing youtube channel sponsorships*
Trust the science…
…Safe AND effective
This video would fit better in Mr beat ,I don't know why you chose this channel
You really think so? I seriously considered posting this video over there as well, but was worried people might get upset.
@@mattbeatgoeson Some people get upset over the littlest things don't let them dictate, I think it would git better there but when you mention culture I do see how this could fit but there is never a fineline between what fits in one box, but that is just my opinion, you should choose based off your opinion love your work keep going
why do people fall for bull crap?...
Sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends -_-
You get it
🤣🤣🤣
Your right considering I have a friend who believes in pizzagate
I used to believe in weird stuff like that.
The Beat Goes On wow really you did oh and also can’t believed you replied
I don't see why this video would make anyone upset?
Because they don't want to think critically...?
Is Raid really "totally" free? Isn't a lot of the criticism of the game due to the in-app purchases available?
#Graham4mod
🤔🤨😵💫
Graham 😳
Wait a second... this isn't about music
Don't worry, my next video is a return to music history
@@mattbeatgoeson to clarify, was making a joke. I enjoyed the video :)
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We all have our blinders. It's funny how this video is relevant to each and every one of us. Even today, we have different populations of the country who have different perceptions of reality and no matter what side they're on, they still see this as a reason the other side is wrong.
But seriously, what happened to the music related content?
Bull crap like thinking raid shadow legends is a good game?
It's the education system and our corrupt government at root.
Most of our problems are systemic.
@@mattbeatgoeson like “racism,” right lib?
E
Good job
Why do we fall for bullcrap?? But first CHECK OUT RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
Yep lol
it takes less brain activity to be judgmental and hateful , empathy and critical thinking requires more energy or brain activity !