{"id":28179,"date":"2023-04-23T11:28:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T18:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=28179"},"modified":"2023-05-12T19:01:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T02:01:13","slug":"ccatp-766","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/ccatp-766\/","title":{"rendered":"CCATP #766 \u2014 Dr. Maryanne Garry on Influencing Delusions About Highly Complex Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week our guest is your favorite psychological scientist, Dr. Maryanne Garry of the University of Waikato in New Zealand and www.garrylab.com\/…<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Garry and four of her colleagues published a paper recently in the Royal Society Open Science called “Trivially informative semantic context inflates people’s confidence they can perform a highly complex skill”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The experiments built on previous studies which demonstrated that people have highly inflated beliefs of their capabilities doing highly complex tasks for which they are entirely unqualified. In particular, a high percentage of people have high confidence that they could land a commercial plane with no help from the tower. In this study, they tested whether watching a short, trivially informative video of two pilots landing a plane would influence that confidence level.<\/p>\n

As always with Dr. Garry, you’ll learn a lot, you’ll laugh along with us, and your dreams will be crushed as only she can. You can find Dr. Garry on Twitter @drlambchop and on Mastodon @drlambchop@mastodon.nz.<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2023_04_23.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript: CCATP_2023_04_23<\/a><\/p>\n

If you want to listen to more interviews with Dr. Garry, check out these episodes of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite:<\/p>\n