Trend Following With Michael Covel

My guest today is Christopher Chabris, a cognitive psychologist and a well-known researcher in the fields of psychology and human cognition. He is most famous for his work on the "invisible gorilla" experiment, which he conducted during his graduate studies at Harvard University along with Daniel Simons. This experiment demonstrated the phenomenon of "inattentional blindness," where people fail to notice unexpected objects or events if their attention is focused on a different task. The topic is his co-authored book Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Cognitive biases and their impact on perception and deception Stepping back from heated debates Scams, frauds, and deceptions Selective data analysis and confirmation bias Vaccines and politics Thinking critically and seeking truth in divisive topics Examining COVID, gender, and Trump through a framework Information curation Jump in! --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOW