142: Interview with David McRaney

Episode 142: Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with David McRaney. David is an internationally bestselling author, journalist, and lecturer who created the You Are Not So Smart blog, books, and podcast. He began a blog writing about the psychology behind biases, delusions, and fallacies in 2009. That blog became an […]

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Episode 142: Welcome back to Real Health Radio. Today’s guest interview is with David McRaney.

David is an internationally bestselling author, journalist, and lecturer who created the You Are Not So Smart blog, books, and podcast.

He began a blog writing about the psychology behind biases, delusions, and fallacies in 2009. That blog became an internationally bestselling book published by Penguin/Gotham in 2011, now available in 14 languages. His second book, You Are Now Less Dumb, was released 2013.

David currently hosts a podcast and writes articles that both appear at Boing Boing, and he travels around the planet giving lectures on the topics he covers in his books, blog, and podcast.

Here’s what we talk about in this podcast episode:

6:30: How David got interested in this field

13:45: A bit about David’s background

17:45: Biases, heuristics, and logical fallacies

24:15: What is priming?

30:00: The availability heuristic

33:30: What is confirmation bias?

37:15: How social media affects our biases

41:00: Do social media companies have a responsibility to the truth?

42:30: Does learning about biases and fallacies actually make you more rational?

46:45: What the heck is confabulation?

55:30: How do you actually get someone to change their mind?

Links mentioned during the show:

White Right

Here’s how you can connect with David McRaney:

Podcast

Website

Instagram

Twitter

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