97. Science, Reasoning, and The Intelligence Trap with David Robson

The Knowledge with David Elikwu

David speaks with David Robson, an award-winning science writer specializing in the extremes of the human brain, body, and behavior. He has previously worked as a features editor at New Scientist and as a senior journalist at the BBC. He is the author of The Intelligence Trap, which has been translated into fifteen languages, The Expectation Effect, and The Laws of Connections.

They talked about:

🔍 How outdated science can mislead us

🔬 The replicability crisis in behavioural science

📡 How scientific information gets distorted

🧠 The problem with IQ

🌱 The importance of intellectual humility

💡 Motivated reasoning and the intelligence trap

📜 Full transcript:

theknowledge.io/davidrobson-1/

📹 Watch on Youtube:

https://youtu.be/jU4ZZDlZsjo

👤 Connect with David:

Twitter: @d_a_robson | https://twitter.com/d_a_robson

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-robson

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidarobson/

Website: https://davidrobson.me/

Books:

The Intelligence Trap | https://amzn.to/4aWELqZ

The Expectation Effect | https://amzn.to/4bkisve

🗣 Mentioned in the show:

University of Cambridge | https://www.cam.ac.uk/

University of Oxford | https://www.ox.ac.uk/

Dan Ariely | https://danariely.com/all-about-dan/

Thinking, Fast and Slow | https://amzn.to/44q2FZD

Lizard Brain | https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/where-addiction-meets-your-brain/201404/your-lizard-brain

Dunning Kruger Effect | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

The Language Instinct | https://amzn.to/4dktX7S

Daniel Kahneman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman

Amos Tversky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Tversky

Psychological Priming | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)

Elon Musk | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

Bill Gates | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

Steve Jobs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

Philip Tetlock | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_E._Tetlock

Nobel Prize Disease | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

Kary Mullis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis

Polymerase Chain Reaction | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction

Arthur Conan Doyle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle

Sherlock Holmes Books | https://amzn.to/4bjJFyo

Harry Houdini | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini

👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu:

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