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Brits Abroad

Cognitive Engineering

English - May 10, 2023 09:16 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MB - ★★★★ - 7 ratings
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As we edge closer to summer we found ourselves looking forward to holidays but dreading the thought of running into British tourists abroad. Is disliking your countrymen while overseas a universal feeling or are we disproportionately hard on ourselves? How do we ensure our holidays won’t be ruined by people exactly like ourselves?

In this week’s podcast, we discuss Brits abroad. We discuss ingroups and outgroups, Newcomb’s paradox, the intricacies of the British class system and evolutionary information discovery. Peter shares his strategy for avoiding Brits while on holiday and we share some of our best and worst experiences of meeting Brits abroad.

A few things we mentioned in this podcast:

- Britons make worst tourists, say Britons https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/articles-reports/2019/08/30/britons-make-worst-tourists-say-britons-and-spania
- Newcomb’s Paradox https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/decision-causal/#NewcProb

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