...come up with catchy title...
- present phenomenon/puzzle/dilemma (eg, thedress)
- explain basic science of the phenomenon (eg, basics of color perception, color constancy effect, other optical illusion)
- discuss implications (nature of reality?) and practical applications (how to check yourself before you wreck yourself)
- link further resources
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short videos (< 10 min?)
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include humans? or just animation & demos?
Any categorization is pretty arbitrary, but just for the sake of imposing structure: perception, reasoning, language, evolution. (To be expanded)
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thedress (visual cognition, color constancy)
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self-perception in photos
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McGurk effect (multimodal integration)
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Ganong effect (phonetic ambiguity resolution)
All kinds of biases! Make sure to always include discussion of why these are usually helpful but also sometimes catastrophically destructive
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confirmation bias
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bandwagon effect
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wishful thinking
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authority effect
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black swans (Taleb-style)
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sneaking information into common ground (presuppositions, "make america great again")
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cooperativity and pragmatic inference (how to check whether someone is being less informative than necessary; i.e., how to think like a lawyer)
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exploitation of relevance inferences (gluten-free meat, don draper's "toasted" lucky strikes)
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why Siri is shit
- what makes people attractive