{"id":192,"date":"2007-10-12T01:40:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T20:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/how-experts-can-go-wrong"},"modified":"2007-10-12T01:40:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T20:40:31","slug":"how-experts-can-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/how-experts-can-go-wrong","title":{"rendered":"How Experts can go wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/09\/science\/09tier.html\">interesting post<\/a> on how even experts can get caught in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Groupthink\">groupthink<\/a> and bad advice can become the &#8220;consensus&#8221; of experts. The reason this happens is as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We like to think that people improve their judgment by putting their minds together, and sometimes they do. The studio audience at \u201cWho Wants to Be a Millionaire\u201d usually votes for the right answer. But suppose, instead of the audience members voting silently in unison, they voted out loud one after another. And suppose the first person gets it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>If the second person isn\u2019t sure of the answer, he\u2019s liable to go along with the first person\u2019s guess. By then, even if the third person suspects another answer is right, she\u2019s more liable to go along just because she assumes the first two together know more than she does. Thus begins an \u201cinformational cascade\u201d as one person after another assumes that the rest can\u2019t all be wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/09\/science\/09tier.html\">full article<\/a>. It argues that the whole &#8220;fatty food is bad for your heart&#8221; is a misconception that got the status of &#8220;consensus&#8221; because of an informational cascade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has an interesting post on how even experts can get caught in groupthink and bad advice can become the &#8220;consensus&#8221; of experts. The reason this happens is as follows: We like to think that people improve their judgment by putting their minds together, and sometimes they do. The studio audience at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/psychology\/how-experts-can-go-wrong\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Experts can go wrong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,6,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}