Hacker News
- The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight [Psychology] http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/08/21/the-illusion-of-asymmetric-insight/ 2 comments
- The-illusion-of-asymmetric-insight http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/08/21/the-illusion-of-asymmetric-insight/ 4 comments
- Fanboyism and Brand Loyalty http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/05/19/fanboyism-and-brand-loyalty/ 5 comments
- The Just-World Fallacy http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/07/the-just-world-fallacy/ 50 comments
- We've misunderstood the Backfire Effect - New research shows people accept fact-correction, but keep their opinions. This happens because facts are used to justify prior opinions, not as a basis for them; when one fact gets corrected, another, favorable to the prior opinon, takes its place. https://youarenotsosmart.com/2018/01/29/yanss-120-the-backfire-effect-part-four/ 30 comments science
- Rant/Request: scam artists suck and are getting , can we create an article to give people guidelines on how to protect themselves? https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/03/25/the-sunk-cost-fallacy/ 14 comments gamedev
- Introspective illusion 'why do you like that painting?' 'Because' very interesting theory on opinion and choice. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/05/26/the-perils-of-introspection/ 12 comments philosophy
- Survivorship bias or why many successful startups in your desired industry does not indicate that yours will be successful as well. http://youarenotsosmart.com/ 9 comments startups
- Survivorship Bias: The Misconception: You should focus on the successful if you wish to become successful. The Truth: When failure becomes invisible, the difference between failure and success may also become invisible. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/ 6 comments philosophy
- Survivorship Bias: The Misconception: You should focus on the successful if you wish to become successful. The Truth: When failure becomes invisible, the difference between failure and success may also become invisible. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/ 3 comments business
- I just read the Survivorship Bias article posted earlier. Are there any books on math/stats in WWII that you would recommend? http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/?imm_mid=0ac2c5&cmp=em-strata-newsletters-hadoop-bestprice-20130710-elist 6 comments math
- Survivorship Bias « You Are Not So Smart http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/?imm_mid=0ac2c5&cmp=em-strata-newsletters-hadoop-bestprice-20130710-elist 48 comments math
- The Misconception: You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate. The Truth: You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/10/05/the-benjamin-franklin-effect/ 23 comments cogsci
- »You can experience emotional states without knowing why, even if you believe you can pinpoint the source.« http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/07/07/misattribution-of-arousal/ 29 comments cogsci
- "The Backfire Effect", your psychological immune system for confirmation bias. Required reading for Internet argument. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/ 7 comments reddit.com
- Everyone in /r/ politics should read this! http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/ 3 comments politics
- The Sunk Cost Fallacy - or, why your worst beats feel twice as bad as your biggest wins http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/03/25/the-sunk-cost-fallacy/ 3 comments poker
- Procrastination. Also, kids staring at marshmallows. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/10/27/procrastination/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Procrastination Explained http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/10/27/procrastination/ 658 comments science
- "Do you vote? If not, is it because you think it doesn’t matter because things never change, or politicians are evil on both sides, or one vote in several million doesn’t count? Yeah, that’s learned helplessness." http://youarenotsosmart.com/2009/11/11/learned-helplessness/ 90 comments politics
- The Misconception: Venting your anger is an effective way to reduce stress and prevent lashing out at friends and family. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/08/11/catharsis/ 7 comments reddit.com
- No one actually knows how stoned you are! http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/07/14/the-illusion-of-transparency/ 4 comments cogsci
- You are not so smart - A celebration of self delusion - best website I've stumbled upon in a long time http://youarenotsosmart.com/all-posts/ 4 comments reddit.com
- Placebo Buttons: Your whole life, you’ve pressed buttons and been rewarded. It’s conditioning at its simplest – just like a rat pressing a lever to get a pellet of food. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/02/10/placebo-buttons/ 10 comments science
- The Truth: Any time you quit something cold turkey, your brain will make a last-ditch effort to return you to your habit. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/07/07/extinction-burst/ 3 comments science
- Conformation Bias: The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/ 5 comments philosophy
- Confirmation Bias http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/ 15 comments science
- "You Are Not So Smart": 57 wine "experts" ooh and ah over red and white wines. They were both were the same wine, the white one was just dyed red. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/02/24/fine-wine/ 137 comments cogsci
- The Misconception: In romance, opposites attract. The Truth: When it comes to personality, you want someone a lot like you, and when opposites do attract the relationships often fall apart. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/17/opposites/ 31 comments cogsci
- Hindsight Bias - The Misconception: After you learn something new, you remember how you were once ignorant or wrong. The Truth: You often look back on the things you’ve just learned and assume you knew them or believed them all along. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/14/hindsight-bias/ 35 comments cogsci
- The Misconception: Coffee stimulates you. The Truth: You become addicted to caffeine quickly, and soon you are drinking coffee to cure withdrawal more than for stimulation. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/02/22/coffee/ 14 comments reddit.com
Linking pages
- 150+ Educational Websites For Lifelong Learners | by Janet Alexandersson | Medium https://medium.com/@imaginetta/150-educational-websites-for-lifelong-learners-71c1d8e94843 11 comments
- 10 Reasons You Will Read This Medium Post | by Ryan Shmeizer | Medium https://medium.com/editors-picks/639a6865617e 1 comment
- YANSS 096 – Is progress inevitable? – You Are Not So Smart https://youarenotsosmart.com/2017/03/03/5540/ 0 comments
- “command-blind” —Adj: Why you get stuck following instructions you find online. | by Mat Gilbert | Medium https://medium.com/@dirtybirdnj/command-blind-adj-why-you-get-stuck-following-instructions-you-find-online-2d2056925d3e 0 comments
- Metaphors and frameworks as tools for thinking | by Rob Estreitinho | Medium https://medium.com/content-strategy/3c195415e50d 0 comments
- On Progress and Historical Change – Ex Urbe http://www.exurbe.com/?p=4041 0 comments
- 43 websites the world uses to learn | by Bibblio | The Graph | Medium https://medium.com/@bibblio_org/43-websites-the-world-uses-to-learn-1de596605657#.7udxxtfl4 0 comments