This is how easy it is to manipulate public perception

Hope you guys enjoy this one! I know It's another one that's a little different from most other videos but I just personally found all these examples really interesting (also needed a break from weird paradoxes and higher dimensional math). But on that subject you guys seemed to enjoy the higher dimensional stuff so I'm working on another one of those but from more of a physics perspective.

Before you make a judgement based on your observations, be sure to think about the things you aren’t observing. Great saying.

I was just recently trying to make this argument for why all hairdressers think that dying your hair at home will probably turn out badly. If you dye your hair at home and it turns out fine, you wouldn't need to see a hairdresser, so they tend to only see the horror stories. This video definitely put it far more eloquently.

Yo that story about putting armour on the plane blew my mind

this video: says a lot of things i can agree with me: this is good quality content hits like button this video: confirmation bias means you think things are higher quality if you agree with them me: ...i feel called out now

Thank you for making everyone mad. I approve, in furious anger.

It's a shame that schools teach (at least they try to) how to use Math for a pretty long time, but they don't spend even the fraction of that time to teach how not to use it, or to recognize when someone's using it the way it shouldn't be used. Videos like this (such as by Numberphile, Mathologer, Vsauce, Veritasium just to name a few) should be in the material of each and every school if they want to carry out their mission.

I love how this video confirms my biases. As a result, I consider it to be a well-put together video.

“Your assumptions don’t reflect reality” is now one of the most hardcore insults😂👌🏼

I mean is it just me or is this actually like a really big problem?

17:47 "No I think that means everyone will get mad" LMAO

"We are seeing things that are getting clicks, not the things that proportionally represent reality" I'm gonna start using this quote more often

18:15 Forget the statistics. What on earth is going on with that woman's eyebrows?

I have always held the notion that statistics is the one subject which every person on the planet should have a basic knowledge of. Videos like this just reinforce that notion. Kudos to you for sharing this content!

This is also why its harder to confront someone who displays a behavior, when they ask you to name multiple times they’ve done it. There are just so many that the individual scenarios don’t stick out any more, making it harder to pull out finite examples. Might have to cite this video next time my roommate acts a fool

To the old me and the other kids who said "When am I going to ever use maths in my life" Here. This is how you are going to use maths in real life. Man, wish I listened more in class.

18:25 who else realized that eyebrows of woman in the purple 🤣

Your channel is getting better and and better. With already 218K subscribers, I think you've reached that point on the curve that you should expect reaching 1M+ soon.

I think this highlights the reality of the danger of misinformation. Many people are not willing and/or able to investigate the validity of every claim they come across, so they have no choice but to rely on things like the availability heuristic (you could debate about whether they truly have "no choice," but I mean to say that this is what happens in reality). Furthermore, I find that being aware of the deception brings a source of anxiety.

I actually had a discussion with my grandmother on this! She’s afraid of going out because of all the violence there is today. And I said to her that it’s not more now then when she was young. She says she hears about it all the time and I responded that of course because of the world beeing more connected. I asked her about violent episodes that she heard about when she was young and she named a couple from her small town. And when we talked about it we couldn’t come up with any episodes from recent times in the same small town. And I told her that back in the day you only heard about what happened in a small area around where you live and now you hear about almost everything from anywhere on the planet! So of course it seems worse.