Wow. People Really Grokked Biases. Let’s Tackle Fallacies.

Hey there, it’s David H. Lawrence. Xvii just got finished doing a series of videos on common biases.
That we all tend to have when we analyze ideas when we look at issues that are presented to us.
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It’s really important to the conversation. I don’t want it to be just like
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What are the things that I wanted to talk about? Because it touch such a nerve with people.
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Have a more Insidious and kind of vicious cousin.
and those are fallacies by and sees
Are natural tendencies towards One Thing versus another fallacies are downright wrong.
Fallacies are just false.
And I want to spend the next few videos talking about some major fallacies just to make sure you’re aware of them.
So that when you are considering situations, you can say how wait a minute wait a minute. This sounds familiar.
Let me see whether I’m I’m falling prey to one of these fallacies.
Now this was all started by an article that I recently read by August Birch August calls himself the book mechanic and his
big mission in life is to get people to write and publish.
They’re books to get them writing a book and that’s no mean feat.
So I really admire August for his tenacity on that.
So he talked about a series of fallacies. I’ve got some others that I’ve been aware of.
Let’s deal with three of them first. I want to talk to you about the bandwagon fallacy.
The bandwagon fallacy pretty easy to kind of picture in your head what that might be and that is that we tend to fall in
line with a certain Behavior or certain believe because everybody else does we’re jumping on the bandwagon. Well look,
if it’s good enough for all these people must be good enough, so
Why not being good enough for me. It’s less work. I don’t have to worry about whether it’s actually true or not.
And you know, you you’ve heard various incarnations of this throughout your life when you were a kid is like. Oh really?
If Johnny Smith wanted you to walk off the end of a pier would you do that or jump off a building would you do it? You
know, we’ve seen examples where psychology students love to do this.
The queue up a bunch of people in front of a store.
and
People will start to queue up get in line behind them without even knowing why.
You know, it’s just cuz other people are or the walk down the street and they’ll look at something on a building.
And they’ll wait for other people to start looking at those things on a building, right?
We should be looking cuz other people are looking right in our business.
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Everybody does it why not right?
Well, I think that’s a fallacy. I think that there are lots of options not the least of which is something a little
something on the stair step method.
And audacity, but that’s just me.
Shut the second one. You’re the bandwagon fallacy. The second one is.
the whole unit fallacy
and the whole unit fallacy is really fun because
What happens is we tend to?
Look at things.
And are more comfortable with how they appear to us.
If they’re being presented in whole units.
super example
I half gallon or gallon of milk.
People will buy that as opposed to a quart or a pint of milk if that’s all they need for a recipe because that’s what
they’ve heard a gallon of milk, right?
or a dozen eggs
or in our business
05 chapter 5 Hour book that’s long 10-hour book that’s long.
Whenever book not so long 11-hour book way too long.
and it depends on your idea of a unit, you know, some people they
You know don’t have that concept or they have fewer concepts of that.
another way this kind of raises its ugly head and if you ever heard this before
people tend to be
more
punctual moron time more often
if they’re asked to be
at
events at appointments
They’re not set for on the hour or on the half-hour.
so if you make an appointment with somebody at
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They’re very much likely. They’re very much more likely.
To be there on time even ahead of time then they would have you said 3 or 3:30.
And we see this all the time in the world of auditions because you know, I had it I had a call back yesterday and my time
my callback time was 427.
You don’t think I got there well before 4:30, right? Cuz it’s like oh 427 y 427 because this unit fallacy. It makes us pay
attention to it.
And then the third one.
Is the status quo fallacy now, this is kind of like the bandwagon fallacy but a little bit different it deals with the
historical nature.
of what we’re looking at so
we prefer things in our environment and
In our situations and in our processes and our plans.
To go with things that have been done before, you know, it’s always been done this way. So it must be right.
the status quo
And there’s a reason for that, you know people tend to also, you know fall back on the phrase.
the devil known
Is better than the devil unknown?
so you’re like doubling your risk if you not only try something new but try something that’s
New and hasn’t been tried by other people yet.
Right. So the status quo fallacy can be something that we fall prey to and there’s ways to
About all of these the bandwagon fallacy is because other people are doing it doesn’t mean you have to do it.
and we tend to
Be more able to adjust to that because we’re artists.
Right, and we don’t want to necessarily copy what other artists or do we have our own drummer?
That we that we March to the beat of right?
the unit fallacy
Just look around and see how people really react to odd units. Oh, the book is 3.74 hours long not long at all.
Well, it’s longer than a two-hour book.
It’s longer than a three and a half hour book.
But it’s not an even unit. So it’s like okay and the status quo fallacy just because something has been done that way
forever.
Doesn’t mean that it’s our best bet for the future.
And I don’t think there’s ever been a time in history.
Save, maybe the Industrial Revolution.
when
This is more true.
That the change that we see coming and the difference is in the in the approaches that we have.
are just so vibrant and so
so clear
So bandwagon fallacy unit fallacy status quo fallacy. Do you feel any of these in your life? Leave me a comment? Let me
know if any of these things have popped up for you or if you remember any situation where these have you know, sort of
been
a part of your Miss judgments or miscalculations on things
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