My guest today is Christopher Chabris, an American research psychologist, currently Associate Professor of Psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience Program at Union College in Schenectady, New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology at Albany Medical College and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.
The topic is his book The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Witnesses, memory, and the legal system
- Expert witness testimony
- “The play that changed poker”
- Mastery in any field
- The connection between chess and memory
- Chabris’ interaction with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and how memory affects our outlook
- The stock market, prediction, and forecasting
- The importance of confidence with regard to predictions
- Simple rules vs. complex rules
- Oprah Winfrey, Malcolm Gladwell, and intuition
- Memory and the influx of information coming at us
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