Episode 90 - Narrative Confirmation Bias, Loaded Questions in Congress, Molyneux’s Misinformation
In this solo show, Max talks about Narrative building, and the confirmation bias that can be associated with it. To illustrate his points:
The recent hearings in Congress of Mark Zuckerberg over the Libra Project
A professor who claims to have the winning system to predict the presidential election
Stefan Molyneux’s use of a combination of statistical and linguistic tricks to build his society narrative.
Links
News: Zuckerberg and congress again
Highlights from CNET on YouTube
Tweet About Rep Ayanna Pressley’s line of Questioning
Alan Litchman Keys to the White House
CBS News Report with Allan Lichtman, the presidential prognosticator
Wikipedia Article with the 13 keys to the white house (and 6 have to fall to defeat an incumbent)
Stefan Molyneux’s Tweets
Tweet about Sex Partners/Divorce/Casual Sex
Original Data from the CDC
IFS: correlation varies over time
I didn’t cover this one, but check out this quote from Molyneux on the subreddit r/badhistory
And finally - the you’re not a part of it’s continuation tweet.
Relevant Episodes
Episode 85 on the Metaculus prediction engine
Episode 82 with Henry Abramson, relevant question on determining good sources of information
Episode 72 covering Facebook’s Libra Currency proposal
Episode 70 about the New York Times article on YouTube radicalization
Episode 10 covering Zuckerberg before congress the first time
