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The human brain is a remarkable pattern-recognition engine with an adaptive bias to favour false positives over false negatives. Michael Shermer gave a fun TED
by RyanMcGreal 14y ago
The human brain is a remarkable pattern-recognition engine with an adaptive bias to favour false positives over false negatives. Michael Shermer gave a fun TED talk on why people are so inclined to believe weird things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_6-iVz1R0o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_6-iVz1R0o