Can Learning Make You Dumb? Yes.

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024

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  • @surrealentertainment
    @surrealentertainment 4 года назад +2357

    this is my favourite thumbnail on youtube, by far

    • @rahimeozsoy4244
      @rahimeozsoy4244 4 года назад +9

      ...

    • @MrErik-real
      @MrErik-real 4 года назад +64

      Ah yes the high quality animator

    • @redbomb6797
      @redbomb6797 4 года назад +14

      I know its been 6 months but I love you're content.

    • @sapphireaurora9634
      @sapphireaurora9634 4 года назад +10

      Oh God. It's you.

    • @sapphireaurora9634
      @sapphireaurora9634 4 года назад +10

      @Jorge Penuela *everything, nightmares everywhere, never ending. I don't know what reality is any more*
      *Please save me*

  • @MilnaAlen
    @MilnaAlen Год назад +45

    I saw the efficient solution right away. But my ADHD brain also doesn't form habits - I have to consciously think of every little step in making a sandwhich or washing dishes like I have never done it before.
    And constantly keep basic tasks like eating, drinking, brushing teeth, sleep in my mind. Still forget a lot of the time. It's exhausting.

    • @joshyoung1440
      @joshyoung1440 Год назад +2

      Same. God so much same. We should form a support group.

    • @joshyoung1440
      @joshyoung1440 Год назад +3

      And it's not me saying it's exhausting. I just describe how my mind works to people and they just go "...wow, that sounds exhausting." And I just go 🥹 I feel so seen 😅

    • @seekerofthemutablebalance5228
      @seekerofthemutablebalance5228 Год назад +4

      Yeah let's form a support grou...oh look another video

    • @lunyxappocalypse7071
      @lunyxappocalypse7071 11 месяцев назад

      Hmm, its interesting how ADHD effects people differently. I have no problem with that as I play my violin pieces easily enough. Its split second decision making that sometimes I overshoot and do something impulsive.

    • @MilnaAlen
      @MilnaAlen 11 месяцев назад +1

      @yiannimitropoulos3913 Mostly it feels like a curse but it's probably equally both?
      In daily life it's very inconvenient not to have habits, accidentally skipping meals and forgetting to brush my teeth. I have been studying my Bachelor's degree for 8 years... A lot of time those failures in basic stuff is all I focus on.
      But if I really think about it, my intelligence, creativity and open mindedness/ability to understand very stigmatized people are huge blessings. Unfortunately I'm cursed to be unable to apply them in any useful way :/ I have way wider and deeper knowledge than a typical undergrad, but nothing to show for it. Definitely get depressed at times.

  • @yarsaff8674
    @yarsaff8674 4 года назад +129

    Fun fact: That scene in Indiana Jones is a direct consecuence of H.F having diarrhea

    • @Lifesizemortal
      @Lifesizemortal 4 года назад +3

      I find that hard to be true but people always say it

    • @JonVonBasslake
      @JonVonBasslake 4 года назад +26

      Not just him, a lot of people on set had diarrhea because of food poisoning. I think the catering didn't properly store the food, so it had gone bad and made everyone have the runs...

    • @yarsaff8674
      @yarsaff8674 4 года назад

      @@Lifesizemortal i lost the link with the interview

    • @Queue3612
      @Queue3612 4 года назад

      i heard it as food poisoning but isnt diarrhea a symptom of food poisoning anyway?

    • @KnakuanaRka
      @KnakuanaRka 4 года назад +2

      n_e_e_t Basically, it was their last day on that particular set, and Ford was not in good enough condition to do an extended fight scene, so someone came up with the idea of Jones just shooting the swordsman.

  • @Sophistry0001
    @Sophistry0001 4 года назад +80

    I've always called this "mindset"think as tunnel vision. When you get so focused on something that you stop seeing what's around you and you go down a rabbit hole or a goose chase you didn't need to.

    • @PyroYeet
      @PyroYeet 4 года назад

      Matt T but when you are in the tunnel vision, you can’t see that you are in the tunnel vision and so you don’t realize until someone makes you look “a diffrent way” of course speaking metaphorically about all this

    • @Sophistry0001
      @Sophistry0001 4 года назад

      @@PyroYeet yea it's hard to realize you have tunnel vision on something until after the fact

    • @MichaelP833
      @MichaelP833 4 года назад

      @@PyroYeet *motor-phorically, although, i dont think it is quite a tunnel for cars :D

  • @ren6140
    @ren6140 4 года назад +178

    So this explains the statement: begginer's "luck"

  • @sarcasm-83
    @sarcasm-83 4 года назад +157

    2:40 Lol, I'm not sure if it makes me smart, dumb or just a total waster of water, but I solved this one in my mind by filling C jar (25), then pouring the A jar full (14) from the C jar - which would leave 11 in C jar.
    Then just pour that 11 in the B jar - and repeat 9 times.
    (I find it funny that I was smart in not following the pattern of filling the B jar first, but dumb in every other way)

    • @espadadearthur1174
      @espadadearthur1174 4 года назад +8

      I did this challenge with my sister and she had the exact same train of thought

    • @KyrieFortune
      @KyrieFortune 4 года назад +29

      so instead of following the already verified algorithm or the simple solution, you pulled what's called a pro-gamer move and did something completely different

    • @commie281
      @commie281 4 года назад +5

      KyrieFortune the definition of a pro gamer move

    • @oledakaajel
      @oledakaajel 4 года назад +4

      Here's the better way that I solved it, pour out 25 4 times from the 163 leaving 63 then add 14 to get 77. Now only two 11s need to be poured in to get 99. Takes much less steps while still being suboptimal.

    • @parn2160
      @parn2160 4 года назад

      @@hashtagnoname3931 yes, "efficient" method. So yeah

  • @Yupppi
    @Yupppi 2 года назад +1

    "What color is snow? What color is ghost? What do cows eat?" is a common trick in Finland amongst kids (can't remember the initial questions though so made them up). Once you answer white a couple of times, you answer "milk" automatically to the cow question.
    When you say "balance this egg on one of its ends" you kinda set a presumption that it has to stand on the end. When you smash the end to pieces, it has no end, just a rim of shell.
    The funny bit about the Indiana Jones scene is that Harrison Ford hadn't bothered to learn the sword fight coreography, and just decided to get out of the troublesome scene shooting situation with the director by making it a joke.

  • @Sm4iLee
    @Sm4iLee 4 года назад +49

    "Ich seh den Wald vor lauter Bäumen nicht" is also a German Idiom and means :
    i can't see the wood because of all the Trees....meaning, the answer is so obvious i can't see it around all those easy solutions.
    it's actually bretty fitting for the Video!

    • @metallicarchaea1820
      @metallicarchaea1820 4 года назад +8

      Not entirely sure which came first but there is an existing English phrase, "Can't see the forest cuz the trees are in the way". Essentially the same saying. One of my favorites as everyone is guilty of that.

    • @Estawn
      @Estawn 4 года назад +3

      *L'arbre qui cache la forêt*

  • @bricksgaming8999
    @bricksgaming8999 3 года назад +1

    In the egg problem, naked means "by himself", meaning that he wouldn't use any tools or things to hold the egg.

  • @WelfareChrist
    @WelfareChrist 2 года назад

    Great video! Reminds me of a line I heard from I don’t know where: “sometimes the portion we see blinds us to the portion we do not see.” It’s the nature of our ignorance that what we don’t know is invisible to us, even to the point that our brains have evolved to keep things invisible because they those things remaining invisible is reproductively expedient. What we know is limited, what we don’t know is infinite.

  • @tensazero
    @tensazero 3 года назад +11

    Summary: "Common sense is not common"

  • @cptncutleg
    @cptncutleg 4 года назад +5

    This can be broken into intelligence types.
    Knowledgable, Intelligent, Cleverness and Analytical.
    Knowledgable people have a vast library of knowledge and experience.
    Intelligent people can recognise patterns and apply or replicate them quickly.
    Clever people can use new and old information to solve problems in novel ways.
    Analytical people can cross-reference data methodically to check if something follows a known trend.
    In reality, everyone has a blend of these traits in different ratios. An example that I use is that I am analytical and knowlegable, but not that intelligent or clever. I know a lot, and in an academic sense, it is accessible, but I lack the cleverness and intelligence to recognise when or how to use it in the real world.
    The problem demonstrated in this video is that intelligent and knowledgable people quickly get into an algorithmic groove, internalising the pattern and applying it instinctively.
    People with minds less adapted to quickly absorbing algorithms or patterns would instead apply cleverness to solve each one individually. However, this leaves the remaining analytical-minded individuals who might notice the change in the pattern and adapt accordingly, which lead to anomalies in the study where more "intelligent" people would succeed regardless, because of the fact that instead of measuring the different intelligences, it lumps them together into an invalid term.
    Thus, I submit my statement that this study lacks validity, as it does not properly quantify intelligence into its component parts and measure which variable has the greatest impact on the results.

    • @emilior934
      @emilior934 4 года назад +1

      I proposed 4 different test, tailored to each type.

  • @dellasx
    @dellasx 4 года назад +14

    I didnt turn "dumber"... I just evolved from magikarp.

  • @TheMR-777
    @TheMR-777 6 месяцев назад

    Man! I think this summarizes the whole thing:
    " When you only have a *HAMMER* every problem seems like a *NAIL* "

  • @arnavnandan
    @arnavnandan Год назад +1

    I feel like this is exactlt what happens in schools. We are forced to just study one formula and are asked questions with the only twist being that there are some extra steps, however, when we are asked something that is simple, we use the same formula. If schools actually let us use our creativity then who knows how better someone would become. The school is not creative to be creative

  • @marilynlpc18
    @marilynlpc18 4 года назад +15

    Vsauce:In tHiS vIdEo i wIlL mAkE yOu dUmBeR
    Me:Wait but if i bEcOmE dUmBeR i wIlL bE smAartTtER

    • @thinboxdictator6720
      @thinboxdictator6720 4 года назад +2

      wouldn't it make paradox with dunning-kruger?

    • @marilynlpc18
      @marilynlpc18 4 года назад +1

      @@thinboxdictator6720 nO mAtHs aLlOwEd hErE

  • @SAMayonaise
    @SAMayonaise 2 года назад +1

    Bro that happens all the time while I'm doing math. If I don't get a simple answer that's a whole number and fractions get thrown into the mess and I have to simplify and divide numbers that don't simplify and divide cleanly I freak out. And that's totally because I've been wired to know that the easiest answer the get is probably the correct one so having trouble doing a problem, even if it wouldn't take that much effort stresses me out

  • @mihaleben6051
    @mihaleben6051 8 месяцев назад

    14:22 ...
    That is the entirety of history in one sentence
    "People died because we were too smart"

  • @MalekErdham
    @MalekErdham Год назад

    Smart kid here. I used my smartness to brute force myself through school that I never had to choose what to achieve.
    Now my brain defaults into trying to keep everything instead of making sacrifices.
    The whole pursuit is dysfunctional. I'm the biggest failure, the dumbest smart kid I know.

  • @Jaylooker
    @Jaylooker 3 года назад

    Thanks for the reminder to take a break and come back with a clearer mind

  • @marioman98
    @marioman98 Год назад

    i had something like this once, me and my friend were constantly beating eachothers times in portal 2 levels and in 1 level i had this elaborate strategy of going up and timing it just right so the cube would launch directly to the button. then he beat it by simply, throwing the cube up there first.

  • @potatopriorites5652
    @potatopriorites5652 3 года назад +1

    8:45 I'll be honest, I fell for that one, but not because I missed the word survivor, I just assumed it was a slip of the tongue

  • @circumplex9552
    @circumplex9552 3 года назад

    Am I the only one who got the more efficient solution on that last jar problem and didnt even think about using the big jar

  • @Grey_Warden_Invasion
    @Grey_Warden_Invasion 4 года назад +4

    Me at the third jar puzzle: Well, that's one way to make it needlessly complicated.
    I wouldn't really say dumber. We just expect increasingly complicated solutions. The brain gets trapped in a pattern.
    Playing a lot of puzzle games with a good mix of actually hard puzzles and puzzles that are actually quite easy as long as you don't overthink them are a good help.

  • @quietperson7155
    @quietperson7155 4 года назад +6

    Sounds more like conformity/norms than the word smart; smart just seems to general. To allow every possibility just means being more open to new information like an anti conformist, being fluid to criticizing yourself, knowing you and everyone else could be wrong. To think outside the box you have to get rid of the box. The box being everything that limits what you can think.

  • @seekerofthemutablebalance5228
    @seekerofthemutablebalance5228 Год назад

    I say it all the time..."I know too much "
    Not ironically either
    And yet I still love learning things hmmm

  • @robertt9342
    @robertt9342 2 года назад

    “Survivors don’t have to be buried”… depends on if there is a cover-up. ;)

  • @NVSParineeth
    @NVSParineeth 3 года назад

    In the airplane problem, if we didn't know that survivors shouldn't be buried then we would be dumber by not learning that survivors shouldn't be buried.

  • @marxtheenigma873
    @marxtheenigma873 4 года назад +5

    "Constrain your creativity" yes it's so bothersome when making speculative aliens and you find its hard not to have their features go along with the 'mammal, reptile, bird, etc' layouts we're used to seeing here.
    Like feeling compelled to put hooves on any four legged herbivore regardless of it's planet of origin.
    Or feeling a bit uncomfortable about a creature with 20 legs because the legs on this creature do not resemble millipede or centipede legs; which are the only creatures you know of with so many limbs.

  • @demerion
    @demerion 4 года назад +30

    "Knowledge is power" - France is Bacon

    • @swinuyasha
      @swinuyasha 4 года назад +2

      "If knowledge is power, then a God, am, I."
      Jim carrys riddler.

    • @jacksonpercy8044
      @jacksonpercy8044 4 года назад +3

      "Smart is strong" - France's Bake-in

    • @Darxide23
      @Darxide23 4 года назад

      "There is no knowledge that is not power." - Mortal Kombat 3

    • @jimmilton6644
      @jimmilton6644 4 года назад +1

      heh bacon is gud

  • @alexfolfy1657
    @alexfolfy1657 Год назад

    The 2 examples didn't work on me, I just fount the 23-3 solution and a was like, oh did the survivors die? what??

  • @tuseroni6085
    @tuseroni6085 2 года назад

    had a situation like this once at a job, there was an engineer there, he was working on a thing that would use a fan to levitate some plastic balls, my thought on how one might do that was to consider the terminal velocity of the balls and adjust the voltage to the fans to create an air speed equal to that terminal velocity, when i asked him about it he said "i just put a potentiometer on the fan and dialed it in til the balls floated"

  • @joshuaspacek88
    @joshuaspacek88 3 года назад +5

    When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail

  • @lionellines6351
    @lionellines6351 4 года назад +16

    5:19: He wrote “Algoritm” instead of “Algorithm”.

    • @brunispero9301
      @brunispero9301 4 года назад +4

      Bc he be dumb

    • @Kiores321
      @Kiores321 4 года назад +1

      You know what he tried to say.
      Target goal reached.
      Not dumb! :p

  • @stoiccrane4259
    @stoiccrane4259 8 месяцев назад

    It's more of a matter of perceptional and social conditioning and habituation than intelligence. When people hear the terms of crash and bury contextually it's associated with death so the details are ignored in view of the broader scenario. It's a way of conserving mental bandwidth instead of regarding every single word with razor sharp acumen.

  • @oskan_mystery6697
    @oskan_mystery6697 3 года назад +2

    8:23 my brain stoped when he said bury the survivors 🤯

  • @axiomostanes
    @axiomostanes 3 года назад

    Meanwhile I'm watching this video while procrastinating on a school assignment

  • @MrPrussianjester
    @MrPrussianjester 6 месяцев назад

    Glad to see my lack of studying for tests is justified.

  • @dreaminginnoother
    @dreaminginnoother Год назад +1

    So Mr. Mouth was right. Your brain gets smart while your head gets dumb.

  • @confusedwhale
    @confusedwhale 4 года назад +1541

    "Survivors don't *_HAVE_* to be buried at all."
    True, but I'm gonna do it anyways.

    • @Tensho_C
      @Tensho_C 4 года назад +48

      exactly, i am not gonna admit my fault, and others shall pay. lol

    • @jebkerman5422
      @jebkerman5422 4 года назад +30

      So you only need to bury the ones that KNOW what happened?
      Knowing less actualy can save your life I guess...🤔

    • @user-qh5jk1mn5i
      @user-qh5jk1mn5i 4 года назад +13

      just burry the border.

    • @eniklisnihm4565
      @eniklisnihm4565 4 года назад +12

      LOL, my reflex answer was " In the ground" . so yea I would have buried them.

    • @Nekrotix12
      @Nekrotix12 4 года назад +4

      How about I *do* _anywaaaay?_

  • @devilofether6185
    @devilofether6185 4 года назад +2118

    "Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb"
    ~great modern philosopher: smash mouth

  • @KingMe-qz2hr
    @KingMe-qz2hr 4 года назад +5086

    “The human brain is the greatest computer ever created”
    - Human Brain

    • @pranav2310
      @pranav2310 4 года назад +363

      This is like that Obama giving himself a medal meme

    • @balmoreblue7550
      @balmoreblue7550 4 года назад +304

      The Human Brain: "The Human Brain"
      - The Human Brain

    • @cheezyej579
      @cheezyej579 4 года назад +34

      69 likes i aint ruining it

    • @madkirk7431
      @madkirk7431 4 года назад +37

      @@cheezyej579 good. But some monster ruined it...

    • @Cybernaut551
      @Cybernaut551 4 года назад +16

      @@fritheaxolotl27527 replied^2 by a human brain.

  • @HermanVonPetri
    @HermanVonPetri 4 года назад +2541

    And thus: “To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

  • @katie8326
    @katie8326 4 года назад +8785

    This is why wisdom and intelligence are different stats

    • @Anankin12
      @Anankin12 4 года назад +360

      And intelligence is not a single stat, too

    • @kkTeaz
      @kkTeaz 4 года назад +38

      @@Anankin12 what?

    • @Anankin12
      @Anankin12 4 года назад +372

      @@kkTeaz Intelligence is divided in multiple stats, you need to level up different classes of intelligence to achieve intelligence bonuses in different areas

    • @jameshumphrey9939
      @jameshumphrey9939 4 года назад +62

      that's a start .. now find specific studies in generalities : )

    • @dcfromthev
      @dcfromthev 4 года назад +91

      @@Anankin12 Is your life a video game?

  • @Owen_loves_Butters
    @Owen_loves_Butters 3 года назад +2209

    It’s not about getting “too smart”, it’s about you getting your mind fixed on one idea and missing others.

  • @naveengadhwal2838
    @naveengadhwal2838 4 года назад +1443

    Baby Kevin : w...w..w...
    His Parents : he is saying his first words!!
    Kevin : WRONG!!

    • @obviouslymatt6452
      @obviouslymatt6452 4 года назад +51

      realistically it would be r... r... r... wrong

    • @Likiita
      @Likiita 4 года назад +8

      @@obviouslymatt6452 its w _r_ o n g
      Very light r hard w

    • @orangerthings8234
      @orangerthings8234 4 года назад +7

      Be more like WONG

    • @JustaPileofBones
      @JustaPileofBones 4 года назад +24

      Is Micheal words when he was a baby is
      O r
      I s
      It????

    • @drops2cents260
      @drops2cents260 4 года назад +7

      > His Parents : he is saying his first words!!
      So, this molecular biologist comes home from a day's work, and their partner's ecstatic:
      - Sweetie! our kid did say its first two words today!
      - Wow, that's great! So it was "Mommy" and "Daddy"?
      - Neither! It was: "Deoxyribonucleic acid".

  • @BenReillySpydr1962
    @BenReillySpydr1962 4 года назад +1026

    _"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."_
    -Sherlock Holmes

  • @San-lh8us
    @San-lh8us 4 года назад +1382

    "survivors don't need to be buried at all", they don't NEED, but they CAN

    • @uzzwalkumar253
      @uzzwalkumar253 4 года назад +30

      On point

    • @nachis04
      @nachis04 4 года назад +10

      Trollolololololol

    • @Khusyasy
      @Khusyasy 4 года назад +4

      wait no

    • @Rikomer
      @Rikomer 4 года назад

      i thought thy need before this video

    • @ww11gunny
      @ww11gunny 4 года назад +63

      technically you dont need to bury the dead either

  • @joshuatabac3451
    @joshuatabac3451 3 года назад +223

    My answer on the survivors was: “just ask the survivors where they want to be buried”. then he said survivors don’t get buried. oh shit i forgot

    • @butwhytho4858
      @butwhytho4858 3 года назад +16

      My mind was thinking they crashed on an unfamiliar planet... they need to get underground for some reason; like to hide or find shelter. We don’t know anything about this planet 🤣

    • @albertjackinson
      @albertjackinson 3 года назад +9

      That's the Einstellung Effect for you!

    • @megb7715
      @megb7715 2 года назад +14

      They can still be buried to cover up the rather suspicious plane crash.

    • @hilloty
      @hilloty 2 года назад +6

      They weren't buried, they were cremated. They might have survived the crash but they can't survive the jet fuel inferno.

    • @fetchstixRHD
      @fetchstixRHD 2 года назад +2

      Certain countries would probably have something to say about that 🤔

  • @vedvod
    @vedvod 4 года назад +776

    but "survivors don't have to be buried at all!", right? "WRONG!"
    Kevin has overlooked the fact that you need to hide the evidence *somehow*

  • @KyrieFortune
    @KyrieFortune 4 года назад +888

    "Where do you bury the survivors?"
    There were no survivors but you, Kevin. But it wasn't your fault. It's time to let go and move on.

  • @GhostSpa
    @GhostSpa 4 года назад +1141

    As a great philosopher once said:
    "Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb."

    • @GalexiDude
      @GalexiDude 4 года назад +159

      so much to do so much to see

    • @sam3524
      @sam3524 4 года назад +130

      So what’s wrong with taking the back streets

    • @tadghostal7501
      @tadghostal7501 4 года назад +109

      @@sam3524 You'll never know if you don't go.

    • @postmorton2493
      @postmorton2493 4 года назад +115

      Thou shalt not shine if thou dost not glow

    • @AA-100
      @AA-100 4 года назад +90

      Hey now, youre an all star

  • @allenholloway5109
    @allenholloway5109 3 года назад +1116

    This is why "beginner's luck" is a thing. Beginners look for new ways to solve problems, while experts rely on experiences that may not be perfect.

    • @perfumefemur
      @perfumefemur 3 года назад +18

      Yoo you're right

    • @clayton3590
      @clayton3590 2 года назад +10

      wow ive never thought of that

    • @mattwinnel1638
      @mattwinnel1638 2 года назад +3

      no beginners who are lucky keep at it while beginners who lose quit, so beginners luck refers to the beginners who are lucky at first but fail later. everyone fails eventually

    • @ideegeniali
      @ideegeniali 2 года назад +29

      In a multiplayer strategic game, a beginner will apply such a different and original strategy, that mid experienced players won't have patterns in place to respond to it most effectively and can disrupt their strategy. However a higher experienced player has seen it all, including beginners strange strategies and will win on those, too

    • @archankumarmyana40
      @archankumarmyana40 Год назад +4

      Yeah and that's why most professional players lose against the loose cannons. Because they can't read their actions. 🤣

  • @TheBrazilRules
    @TheBrazilRules 4 года назад +893

    "Where to bury the survivors?"
    Me: Their home countries. DUH!

    • @sandiaswara1940
      @sandiaswara1940 4 года назад +54

      I'm also think like that when the first time I hear the question but on second thought it depends on their family requested

    • @Ultiminati
      @Ultiminati 4 года назад +193

      Congratulations on surviving a plane crash! As a reward, you will be buried in your homeland!

    • @powandwow750
      @powandwow750 3 года назад +2

      That's what I was thinking

    • @robertl4522
      @robertl4522 3 года назад +16

      I think the question is misleading, you give trust to the questioner to give you a question that is not inherently wrong and as such you assume that survivors MUST be buried.
      If the questioner started with a "should we bury the survivors?" question, then the problem would be solved immediately.
      Sometimes the question itself is wrong, leading us to wild conclusions.

    • @lady_deaths_head
      @lady_deaths_head 3 года назад +8

      @@robertl4522 that is the purpose of the question

  • @skallos_
    @skallos_ 4 года назад +1165

    "You can't even use the largest jar."
    If you take the jar with 76 ounces, and pour out 3 ounces at a time 25 times, you are left with 1 ounce. Pour that 1 ounce into the 28 ounce jar and repeat 25 times. There, a solution using the 76 ounce jar.

    • @Doomroar
      @Doomroar 4 года назад +337

      You went all in and defeated the system.

    • @Aakraos
      @Aakraos 4 года назад +246

      Yeah, 3 jars and 625 steps. But that's true :D

    • @smith8846
      @smith8846 4 года назад +96

      Or you could just pour out 3 ounces 17 times so you are left with 25 ounzes. I mean, 76 is congruent to 25 modulo 3

    • @sergey1519
      @sergey1519 4 года назад +75

      I can do better
      1) fill in the 76 ounce jar
      2) pour it 2 times into 28 jar, leaving 20 ounces in the bigger jar
      3) empty all the jars
      4) repeat the steps of a solution, not using the big jar anymore...

    • @nebula_smile826
      @nebula_smile826 4 года назад +5

      Smith true but people are to dumb 🤦🏻‍♂️ (he probably made a mistake in the numbers in the vid.)

  • @palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046
    @palatasikuntheyoutubecomme2046 4 года назад +1074

    Everyone: This rope is too hard to undo
    Alexander the great: I’m about to do something known as a pro gamer move

    • @anilmhatre1069
      @anilmhatre1069 4 года назад +5

      D¡Ng

    • @man-goosemongoose839
      @man-goosemongoose839 4 года назад +3

      PogU

    • @matgrill9085
      @matgrill9085 4 года назад

      What

    • @jtwei7101
      @jtwei7101 4 года назад +4

      I always saw his way as cheating

    • @sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149
      @sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 2 года назад +5

      @@jtwei7101 Oh it certainly was, but it also symbolically told everyone something.
      "I don't care if its cheating. I have a sword and I'm not afraid to use it. Any objections to me being king?"

  • @josephcope7637
    @josephcope7637 2 года назад +144

    When I was a kid my grandmother teased my cousins and I by asking if any of us could "stick out our tongues and touch our elbows?" After we all went through contortions trying to touch our elbows with our tongues ... and failed, she stuck out her tongue and touched her elbow WITH ONE OF HER HANDS. I never forgot that lesson and many times it's kept me from making a fool of myself when solving tricky problems.

    • @jbear3478
      @jbear3478 Год назад +7

      I feel like this also has to do with fear of breaking preconceived rules

    • @turolretar
      @turolretar Год назад +2

      Bro that’s called cheating

    • @lourainevillalon3852
      @lourainevillalon3852 Год назад +15

      @@turolretar well, it isn't though. they never said you should stick your tongue and have it touch WITH your elbow. the phrasing is different, but it's very subtle so we assume that it assumes the preconceived rules as mentioned by jbear

    • @101Volts
      @101Volts Год назад +3

      @@turolretar You might want to look more into this, because I *can guarantee you* that there are people who _could_ tell you the truth while not telling you what you *think* they're saying.

    • @lunyxappocalypse7071
      @lunyxappocalypse7071 11 месяцев назад +1

      In programing that would verily be True.

  • @dpearson80808
    @dpearson80808 4 года назад +1124

    This is why a “fresh set of eyes” is sometimes needed to solve a particularly stubborn problem.

    • @KRYMauL
      @KRYMauL 3 года назад +36

      My favorite version of this is something a Math Professor said in college about a proof it went something like, “He walked away had a drink and looked at again tomorrow.”

    • @GabrielsEpicLifeofGoals
      @GabrielsEpicLifeofGoals 3 года назад +12

      I tried to take advantage of this once by forcing my brain to forget my final while I was doing it, look at it again and spot the mistake. It kinda worked, but it's hard to execute. I'll look more into it.

    • @plutarian7396
      @plutarian7396 3 года назад +2

      I am not a professional mathematician but solved dividing by 0! Instead of using undefined or just infinity and negitive infinity say all numbers in mathematics are the answer to dividing by 0 as there are so many solutions and some of them have infinite answers. You sometimes need new eyes to look at a problem.

    • @KRYMauL
      @KRYMauL 3 года назад +7

      @@plutarian7396 There is not infinitely many solutions the value of y = 1/x x-> 0 is an asymptote.

    • @vincentfreddoyle7555
      @vincentfreddoyle7555 3 года назад +8

      It’s also how some problems confuse you by giving *too much information*

  • @bilbowagons7932
    @bilbowagons7932 4 года назад +287

    "I hope this video makes you dumber"
    *It seems you have underestimated my stupidity*

    • @atheontimesconflux4613
      @atheontimesconflux4613 4 года назад +5

      Bilbo Wagons ah ha you intellect you have underestimated the fact that I don’t have a brain as I am not human I am a sandwich

    • @anotherfluffyninja6903
      @anotherfluffyninja6903 4 года назад +9

      @@atheontimesconflux4613 Mind if I ask what type of sandwich?
      asking for a friend.

    • @addy7464
      @addy7464 4 года назад +1

      Underrated comment bro

  • @otherssingpuree1779
    @otherssingpuree1779 4 года назад +410

    Michael: So, being stupid is smart... or is it?
    Kevin: So, being stupid is smart, rightWRONG.

  • @CatFish21sm
    @CatFish21sm 2 года назад +62

    I've heard an interesting story once, I live in a farming community. There was a farmer who had three sons. Two of them went off to college and one of them stayed home and took care of the farm. Of the two that went to college, one went to business school, the other into agriculture. After graduating, the son who went into agriculture came back home. He preformed many tests on the soil and came up with a plan to triple their profit by planting a new crop that the family never grew. The brother who'd stayed home didn't like this idea. The father seeing them argue with one another smiled and said "Well why don't each of you take half the farm and do what you want. We can decide things next year when we see the results. They both reluctantly agreed. As the year went on the each son did their own things, the one who went to college grew his crop which had mostly shriveled and died he ended up taking a loss. The other son did things as they always had and ended up with enough profit to cover the loss, though just barely. Overall the third son had to help them through the winter. Utterly humiliated and embarrassed the educated son seeked his father for advice asking why his plan had failed. His father responded with an "I'm not sure, but we've never been able to grow those kinds of crops here." Surprised he asked "then why did you let me grow them in the first place?" His father replied "Well there's two reasons, if I hadn't let you fail then you never would have learned, also you may not have had a good relationship with your brother because of that, you need to work together. Second, because you might know something I don't, you might be able to succeed where I failed. You're brother is stuck in his ways, just as I had been at that age, but I have since learned to open my mind and be more reasonable."
    From that day forward whenever the brothers had a dispute, the educated one wanted to try something new, they would result to splitting the farm. Over time the educated brother helped to increase efficiency and profit several tines. The uneducated brother learned to open his mind to more possibilities and all three brothers began working together to maximize efficiency and profit.

    • @aleide2980
      @aleide2980 2 года назад +7

      That's a good story.

    • @yellowpowr8455
      @yellowpowr8455 Год назад +11

      Sounds like the one who went to school for business is the real untold wise one all along and had to support everyone else’s fooling around.

    • @jbear3478
      @jbear3478 Год назад +2

      That's sweet and unexpected

    • @jbear3478
      @jbear3478 Год назад +2

      ​@@yellowpowr8455 lmao

    • @yellowpowr8455
      @yellowpowr8455 Год назад +1

      @@aleide2980 Agreed.

  • @lythd
    @lythd 4 года назад +1281

    I'm wondering if beginners luck is actually somewhat related to this effect.

    • @lewisbaitup6352
      @lewisbaitup6352 4 года назад +68

      Makes sence

    • @silentstranger49
      @silentstranger49 4 года назад +76

      Especially in video games

    • @luckywee4648
      @luckywee4648 4 года назад +25

      Ohhh really smart yep I that could be it

    • @TJTrickster
      @TJTrickster 4 года назад +110

      Beginners consider everything as there is no strategy

    • @shyanide
      @shyanide 4 года назад +68

      beginners are trully unpredictable

  • @umberscore2051
    @umberscore2051 4 года назад +922

    "I am perusing peak stupidity"
    I mean, all you had to do was log into Twitter

    • @EebstertheGreat
      @EebstertheGreat 4 года назад +60

      I appreciate how you spell "pursuing." You are on the right track. ;)

    • @RaylaEclipse
      @RaylaEclipse 4 года назад +14

      Or Reddit. Or 4chan. Those two are way worse than Twitter.

    • @lucasng4712
      @lucasng4712 4 года назад +37

      @@RaylaEclipse twitter is just a cesspool of outrage

    • @RaylaEclipse
      @RaylaEclipse 4 года назад +18

      @@lucasng4712 I'm not saying that's wrong, I'm just saying that 4chan and Reddit are both worse than Twitter. Reddit I could see being either better or worse tbh, but 4chan is for sure worse than either of the two.

    • @marcusdillem9678
      @marcusdillem9678 4 года назад +1

      it's at 0:37

  • @cosmiqoutcast
    @cosmiqoutcast Год назад +103

    I noticed this at uni. My theoretical physics partner who I solved the weekly problem sheets with was actually from the maths department and she said she didn‘t get the meaning of the lagrangian. She was far better than me when it came to handling the formulas while I was more interested in what they actually mean. I got sick once and she had to do the problem set alone and we got an almost perfect score. But then she admitted to me that she had no idea what the hell she was doing. It was mostly automatic for her. That was quite shocking tbh.

    • @paulgoogol2652
      @paulgoogol2652 Год назад +4

      Lol what a silly person.

    • @pierrecurie
      @pierrecurie Год назад +3

      Does _anyone_ know the meaning of the lagrangian? As a PhD physicist, I can tell you why it's useful/what to do with it/intuition with how the classical equations of motion arise from QM, but none of that tells us what the lagrangian is.

    • @cosmiqoutcast
      @cosmiqoutcast Год назад +5

      @@pierrecurie Sure, my comment was never intended to insult said person at all, I was just shocked that the course was designed in a way that someone could pass the assignments without having ANY IDEA why we were taught this tool. Also, there is still a difference between us undergrads not knowing what the lagrangian really is, and someone far more experienced with a PhD judging its meaning.

    • @phillustrator
      @phillustrator 11 месяцев назад +6

      It's common in Physics. Most people just do maths and a few bother to understand the physics. The evaluation system favors the mechanistic solving of equations so it selects the wrong people.

    • @cosmiqoutcast
      @cosmiqoutcast 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@phillustrator Thanks, that's exactly what I meant!!!

  • @alejandroinc9575
    @alejandroinc9575 4 года назад +821

    Vsause: Being dumb makes you smart
    Me: I smart

    • @dwightfry99
      @dwightfry99 4 года назад +8

      IMHO, it's a balance. Seek to learn new things, find patterns, go as far as you need to complete your goals. BUT also treat everything like you are learning it for the first time. Don't get caught up in what you think you know.
      When intelligence is a shortcut, you've gone to far.
      Unfortunately, you will never know when you should be relying on what you know, or starting from scratch. The simple act of participating in a puzzle (eg life's conflicts) becomes confusing and frustrating. It's deeply uncomfortable to understand the possibility that what you know might not be right, all the time. But you will always go further because if you knew what you needed to know, then you will come to that same conclusion, but this time with a greater understandings. And if you didn't know what you needed to know, now you'll be able to see it clearly.

    • @Eric-zz5ij
      @Eric-zz5ij 4 года назад +12

      I believe you, because you spelled Vsauce wrong.

    • @_yuri
      @_yuri 4 года назад +4

      @@Eric-zz5ij or.did he 🎶

    • @dwightfry99
      @dwightfry99 4 года назад +2

      @Ron Manevitch The best jokes are based in reality. Alejandro Inc was making a joke, but I don't doubt it was based in reality as no one is above feeling dumb at least some of the time.
      The twist is that it can work out to their favor.

    • @robbiejobbie4302
      @robbiejobbie4302 4 года назад +4

      why waste time say lot word when few word do trick

  • @funnyguy2019
    @funnyguy2019 4 года назад +208

    This reminds me of this time in middle school when someone was asked to give a large number, in this case 8,675,309, and write down two numbers when multiplied produce that number.
    I tried and tried to no avail and then, one of my friends told me that I could just write 8,675,309 * 1. I remember feeling so horrible about myself for not being able to solve it even though prime factorization would be near damn impossible for a middle school class. I think that's exactly like the Einstellung effect

    • @liaar5899
      @liaar5899 4 года назад +28

      The fraction 8,675,309/2 and 2

    • @dev.kochevnik
      @dev.kochevnik 4 года назад +14

      @@liaar5899 r/techincallythetruth

    • @moontiger6393
      @moontiger6393 4 года назад +19

      Btw 8,675,309 is a prime number, so 1 * 8,675,309 is the only solution.

    • @Anthony-op7xz
      @Anthony-op7xz 4 года назад +10

      moon tiger never said it cant be decimals

    • @agenttoes9759
      @agenttoes9759 4 года назад +2

      Two things here, it isn't the same thing. The Einstellung effect happens when a person is shown a series of patterns leading to solutions then when one breaks the pattern, the person has trouble solving the problem. It is the same reason people have trouble on certain IQ tests, they are given a several series of numbers and have to figure the pattern, most are easy, every other odd number, then about the 5th or 6th problem, there is not a simple pattern to the numbers and people have a hard time solving it. This is just a big number that overwhelmed a young person. Also, it happens to be a Tommy Tutone song 867-5309/Jenny!!!! Come on!

  • @blitsriderfield4099
    @blitsriderfield4099 2 года назад +24

    at a scout camp, i was given a test. the test consisted of a number of wild and wacky activities like dancing like a chicken, running in circles or finding a pinecone. the sheer number of activities made me miss the line "read all the instructions before beginning the test" and as such i did not notice the last activity was to ignore all of the previous ones

  • @mimf9808
    @mimf9808 4 года назад +336

    Reminds me of the one riddle that starts out with “you are a bus driver” and then goes into a complex description of how many people get on and off at each stop. Then, at the end, it just asks: “what color are the bus driver’s eyes?” And they’re so confused

    • @Blue-gp3vn
      @Blue-gp3vn 2 года назад +47

      And the Saint Ive's riddle, where it begins with "As I was going to St. Ive's..." and follows with meeting a certain number of people who each have a certain number of wives who each have a certain number of pets, then proceeds to ask how many were going to St. Ive's.

    • @mimf9808
      @mimf9808 2 года назад +6

      @@Blue-gp3vn oh yeah yeah that too

    • @ferozemohammed5339
      @ferozemohammed5339 2 года назад +2

      @@Blue-gp3vn is the answer you alone?

    • @ideegeniali
      @ideegeniali 2 года назад +9

      I just missed "you are a bus driver" and like of heard "there is a bus driver" when i was presented this one when i was 10 years old. My brain assumed that part was not relevant and threw it away from memory and replaced with something else. I think it's a different cognitive issue than trying to aligning new concepts into already known patterns. It's more focusing on relevant informations and discarding less relevant ones. But yes, you were exposed to problems before where the individuality of the character is not relevant to the solution, while numeric info is relevant, and continue in the pattern of replacing "ben" "tom" "mum" "you" with just "character A, B, C - not relevant who s/he is, relevant how many s/he has". Maybe a pre scholar 5 years old child is able to solve the riddle because s/he enjoys pretending to be different characters while inventing stories, and will react differently to "you are" and will remember that part!

    • @Lordmewtwo151
      @Lordmewtwo151 Год назад +5

      Or the same riddle but asking for age instead of eye color.

  • @12x2is24
    @12x2is24 4 года назад +610

    “Can learning make you dumb?”
    Teachers: * sweating *

    • @kkmac7247
      @kkmac7247 3 года назад +27

      Can learning make you
      Dumb

    • @shivendrasingh009
      @shivendrasingh009 3 года назад +21

      @@kkmac7247 you are
      Cool

    • @Icewind007
      @Icewind007 3 года назад +37

      Reminds me of my dumbass math teachers who only accepted the right answer done in a specific way.

    • @batfan1939
      @batfan1939 3 года назад +3

      200th like.

    • @TBTornado
      @TBTornado 3 года назад +9

      government: Stops funding schools

  • @ethannguyen2754
    @ethannguyen2754 3 года назад +20

    It’s not that learning makes you dumber, it’s learning to do things in just one way is a bad way to learn.

  • @WMxSmith
    @WMxSmith 4 года назад +1779

    It doesn’t sound like the issue is being “too smart”. It sounds like the issue is lazy thinking. Relying too much on assumptions developed from previous problem solving rather than looking for a fresh solution when one is called for. The lack of a kaizen mind, one that constantly looks for better solutions even when the problem is familiar.

    • @SarahAbramova
      @SarahAbramova 4 года назад +153

      Yeah, I got all of them right. I wasn't stuck in any mindset. This reminds me of a question asked in psychology class.
      "How do you throw a ball so that it makes a complete stop, and goes in the opposite direction of where you threw it, without bouncing it off of anything?"
      I got it immediately, as well as like 6 people. Out of 20-25 students.
      The answer is to throw it straight up.

    • @ericvisser5253
      @ericvisser5253 4 года назад +16

      Sarah Abramova dang I was assuming the guy was in a room lol. I didn’t even think about whether he was outside or not. Cause if he was in a room it would have hit the ceiling and came back down

    • @trolleymouse
      @trolleymouse 4 года назад +56

      @@ericvisser5253 Even in a room, you could just not throw it hard enough to hit the roof.

    • @shappp1
      @shappp1 4 года назад +29

      @@SarahAbramova I got it but I understand how people would mess that up. People's 'mindset' is to throw a ball forward, so when they see this, they will be confused.

    • @josephdelatolas3369
      @josephdelatolas3369 4 года назад +17

      Yes, thanks WMxSmith.
      That's exactly what I was thinking from the beginning of the video and I wanted to see if someone commented on that.
      I would also like to add that not being lazy minded like that, could be considered being smarter. So in the very end, the premise of the video is WRONG! :P

  • @SciFactsYT118
    @SciFactsYT118 4 года назад +572

    Random fact: German chocolate cake is named after a guy named Sam German, not the country.

    • @rickharper4533
      @rickharper4533 4 года назад +33

      SciFactsYT amother fun fact: german chocolate cake is absolutely disgusting to most germans and pretty much everyone else not from the US.

    • @ShadowJazo
      @ShadowJazo 4 года назад +18

      @@rickharper4533 Im german and never heard of such Cake :D. We just name it "Schoko Sahne" = Chocolate cream

    • @thinboxdictator6720
      @thinboxdictator6720 4 года назад +10

      another random fact:
      in that scene from indiana jones,
      that bullet was powered by diarrhoea

    • @dutchik5107
      @dutchik5107 4 года назад +3

      @@rickharper4533 uhm. No. You guys don't have a monopoly on chocolate. Like at all.

    • @Eric-zz5ij
      @Eric-zz5ij 4 года назад +11

      @@dutchik5107 He legit stated the opposite tho????

  • @MrBainbridge94
    @MrBainbridge94 4 года назад +299

    In the IT industry this comes up a lot during diagnosis. We sometimes know too much and we "forget" the basics.

    • @nahrafe
      @nahrafe 4 года назад +38

      After a week of IT diagnosis and someone accidentally restarted the hardware and it works again perfectly: ok

    • @R1bonpnk
      @R1bonpnk 3 года назад +3

      i misread this as IT the horror movie

    • @XbninjaXIV
      @XbninjaXIV 3 года назад +6

      Ive overcomplicated a lot of issues that end up being a really simple fix. Was fixing some drivers for a USB mouse not working no matter what, turns out just switching to a different port solved it. Really thought the issue was on a software or driver side. Nope.

    • @faustin289
      @faustin289 3 года назад +2

      Next time, try "newbie's luck". That's where interns come in.

    • @swagmund_freud6669
      @swagmund_freud6669 Год назад +1

      My dad, who works in IT, never got a comp sci degree, taught himself how to code.
      He swears up and down that 95% of computer problems are solved by turning it on and off again.

  • @WingmanSR
    @WingmanSR 3 года назад +25

    "...bury the survivors."
    Well, somewhere remote seems like a wise choice. 😂

  • @jackdan1811
    @jackdan1811 4 года назад +809

    In a nutshell: Don’t be smart, read memes and lose braincells.

  • @mpmh5896
    @mpmh5896 4 года назад +138

    Well, I didn’t recognise that Einstellung was a German (my mother tongue) word, I was so into hearing English that I my first thought was, that it sounded like Einstein..

    • @simoon7085
      @simoon7085 4 года назад +2

      19Mario03 hahah samee! Although I’m from the Netherlands :))

    • @M0nkux
      @M0nkux 4 года назад

      Same

    • @benstewart5334
      @benstewart5334 4 года назад +2

      Just say it's your first language, mother tongue is a really really old frase.

    • @MadMonkeysMenacingMe
      @MadMonkeysMenacingMe 4 года назад +30

      @@benstewart5334 Mother tongue is perfectly acceptable, I wouldn't refer to it as an archaic phrase at all

    • @mpmh5896
      @mpmh5896 4 года назад +2

      Ben Stewart, well it’s one of those phrases they teach you in school instead of teaching you many synonyms. If I remember, I’ll use first language next time, it does sound better

  • @ettrigar2124
    @ettrigar2124 4 года назад +111

    "Your brain is the greatest computer ever invented."
    What year is this?

    • @ourochroma
      @ourochroma 4 года назад +13

      The year we go extinct

    • @satanhimself3578
      @satanhimself3578 4 года назад +8

      Boomer remover virus

    • @ava_niche
      @ava_niche 4 года назад +4

      As the great Donald Trump said: 20,014

    • @ettrigar2124
      @ettrigar2124 4 года назад

      @Innocent Bystander That clears everything up. Thank you.

    • @neogeo1670
      @neogeo1670 4 года назад +1

      @@ourochroma 😷🤒🥵😱💀☠

  • @GonzoTehGreat
    @GonzoTehGreat Год назад +14

    5:00 The *Einstelllung* effect might have an equivalent in Machine Learning, known as *overfitting.*
    Overfitting is when an algorithm arrives at a solution which closely fits the training dataset, but doesn't generalise to other data.
    This sounds like what happened to the people who became fixated on using all 3 cups to solve the problem.
    Love your videos! 👍

    • @michaelbuckers
      @michaelbuckers 7 месяцев назад

      No that's not it. Overfitting is basically memorizing the quiz answers without comprehending the questions.
      AI has no capacity to comprehend anything, it has to memorize things. With generous enough model & training settings, it can have sufficient resources to simply memorize the whole dataset. The model design is about giving it only just enough resources to memorize basic reliable patterns so it can guess the answers correctly.

  • @mady6929
    @mady6929 3 года назад +353

    I love that Kevin brought up the swordsman scene in Indiana jones, because in reality Harrison ford was supposed to have a big 3.5 page choreographed sword fighting scene , but Ford had been sick with dysentery for a couple days already, and asked Spielburg to film the scene differently as to spend more time in the bathroom and less time on set 😂

    • @myh6274
      @myh6274 2 года назад +12

      Lol

    • @estebson
      @estebson Год назад +16

      iirc the swordsman was so mad that his time was wasted that he just left the set.

  • @skeletonviolin3221
    @skeletonviolin3221 4 года назад +148

    This actually is exactly what people do when learning to draw realistically. People have symbols they've used to represent things since childhood. A head is a circle. A house is a square with a triangle. To draw realistically people need to unlearn these and see the reference as in is instead of how they think it is to accurately reproduce it.

    • @lobsterbark
      @lobsterbark 2 года назад +26

      Learning photography the same thing happens. What color you think things are and what color things actually are is not the same. Shadows are not black, they are blue. The sun isn't yellow, it's white. Roads aren't black, they are gray. And so on.

    • @seekerofthemutablebalance5228
      @seekerofthemutablebalance5228 Год назад +8

      I had this issue with learning to sing. In my head I am replicating the song exactly but when I listen to my recording it sounds all wrong, which for quite a while I blamed the microphone and/or the recording device but I've slowly brought the two into agreement but dang it's hard

    • @lunyxappocalypse7071
      @lunyxappocalypse7071 11 месяцев назад

      @@seekerofthemutablebalance5228 Partly because one is hearing it inside their skull which deepens the sound.

    • @ChiefMakes
      @ChiefMakes 8 месяцев назад

      @@lunyxappocalypse7071really? Mine sounds higher than n my hesd

  • @Wyrmi
    @Wyrmi 4 года назад +115

    Great, I'm going to be the smartest man alive

  • @huraivaabbas9221
    @huraivaabbas9221 4 года назад +196

    Note to self: when he says "Right?" It's wrong

    • @Quasarel
      @Quasarel 4 года назад +25

      It's right.
      Or is it?

    • @bonstantinbiencke
      @bonstantinbiencke 4 года назад +3

      Just wait

    • @TheSkullConfernece
      @TheSkullConfernece 4 года назад +6

      Are you sure you want to program yourself that way?

    • @Gabriel-zd8iy
      @Gabriel-zd8iy 4 года назад +2

      @@TheSkullConfernece lol

    • @eftorq
      @eftorq 4 года назад +5

      Sure you are not just falling for the einstellung effect?

  • @fireice3040
    @fireice3040 3 года назад +24

    This gives “ignorance is bliss” a whole other meaning

  • @7head7metal7
    @7head7metal7 4 года назад +78

    I'm currently reading "The Art of Thinking Clearly" by Rolf Dobelli. E extensively covers our everyday cognitive biases, and I found myself falling for so many of them, after being aware of their existence. It helps to be aware of this Einstellung effect and to always question my solution to a problem. For an engineer this is especially important, since we care a lot about efficiency in regards of cost, material and design.

    • @alwaystinkering7710
      @alwaystinkering7710 2 года назад +3

      I'm an engineer and you are so right. It's easy to get stuck in one ditch of thinking that's not the most efficient solution and sometimes might even be dangerous. I've learned to step back and _try_ to use fresh eyes. Look at something I'm doing like I've never seen it before and see what jumps out as questionable. I did it just yesterday and realized I was in the ditch, then pulled in another set of fresh eyes and asked them to confirm. I was.
      PS thanks for the book recomendation.

    • @turolretar
      @turolretar Год назад

      @@alwaystinkering7710I see guys in the comments constantly mentioning a fresh set of eyes. Where do you all get them? Because I got mine from alibaba, and they don’t fit me at all. Please help

  • @AllNiin
    @AllNiin 4 года назад +86

    There is this chinese proverb that I really like that maybe will fit here: "You have eyes but you fail to recognize mount Tai" it is about peoople who are too arrogant to see properly what is front of their face.

    • @tendatonda1634
      @tendatonda1634 3 года назад +6

      *chinese novels ptsd*

    • @morodaye1417
      @morodaye1417 2 года назад +1

      @@tendatonda1634 Coughs up blood

    • @tendatonda1634
      @tendatonda1634 2 года назад +1

      @@morodaye1417 JUNIOR YOU DARE!!

    • @morodaye1417
      @morodaye1417 2 года назад

      @@tendatonda1634 Coughs up even more blood and offers to serve you if only you'll spare me

    • @tendatonda1634
      @tendatonda1634 2 года назад

      @@morodaye1417 Yes, you will serve as my assistant in extracting medicinal herbs for my cultivation pills junior.

  • @gamerboygaming
    @gamerboygaming 4 года назад +127

    “Survivors don’t need to be buried at all”
    They will when I run another plane into them.

    • @SCP--gr3pd
      @SCP--gr3pd 4 года назад +3

      NO THAT IS RIDICULOUS
      I’ll beat you to it

    • @ferociousmaliciousghost
      @ferociousmaliciousghost 3 года назад +6

      Should you run another plane or should you bury them alive? That's the question.
      (Unless you want to do both)

    • @anawesomepet
      @anawesomepet 3 года назад +1

      @@ferociousmaliciousghost bury them for 50 hours and crash a plane into them half way through the 50 hours.

  • @sevvalyoldas8028
    @sevvalyoldas8028 4 года назад +195

    VSauce: Welcome to the Einstellung Effect!!!"
    *laughs in Germany*

    • @alienozi
      @alienozi 4 года назад +11

      MEINST DU IN DEUTSCH!

    • @fred_bauer
      @fred_bauer 4 года назад +20

      x'D
      "The aNsChTeLoNg effect"

    • @zephyromg3881
      @zephyromg3881 4 года назад +3

      Das hab ich auch bemerkt. lol

    • @micahphilson
      @micahphilson 4 года назад +6

      I studied german throughout college, and when he said that word the first time... a bit of me died. I had to rewatch it to make sure he was even saying the same thing!

    • @SCP--gr3pd
      @SCP--gr3pd 4 года назад +1

      Ich bin eigentlich kein Deutscher
      See i know english

  • @OhShrike
    @OhShrike 4 года назад +64

    "Dont do that... dont give me hope."

  • @rajendrasujakhu4873
    @rajendrasujakhu4873 4 года назад +244

    *"I hope this video makes you dumber"*
    My brain: 404 Error Can't get any dumber Intelligence already at zero

    • @bhavinpatel9630
      @bhavinpatel9630 4 года назад +22

      Easy solution: go into the negatives

    • @glumbortango7182
      @glumbortango7182 4 года назад +8

      @@bhavinpatel9630 Easy solutions? Sounds too smart for me

    • @nk-qy2xp
      @nk-qy2xp 4 года назад +15

      Don't worry, your intelligence level will simply experience an integer overflow and you will achieve maximal intelligence.

    • @ava_niche
      @ava_niche 4 года назад

      @Angus Macneil *Gandhi

    • @jeelpatel231
      @jeelpatel231 4 года назад

      403

  • @flourtoast
    @flourtoast 3 года назад +8

    As a great man once said:
    "Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb."
    - Steven Scott Harwell

  • @desu38
    @desu38 4 года назад +139

    "If you don't got no sauce, you lost. But you can also get lost in the sauce."
    -Gucci Mane

    • @casualimprovement1237
      @casualimprovement1237 4 года назад +2

      desu38 words to live by

    • @SCP--gr3pd
      @SCP--gr3pd 4 года назад +1

      @Casual Improvement
      A comRADE is coming
      Me:uh oh A FRIEND!

  • @crunchevo8974
    @crunchevo8974 4 года назад +105

    "EINSTELLUNG EFFECT" *insert groovy music*

  • @elfinthekitchen
    @elfinthekitchen 4 года назад +164

    Kevin: Alexander
    Paper: Abraham
    Me: *Jar* A and *Jar* B... *Jar-Jar* Binks!!!

  • @austinfernando8406
    @austinfernando8406 4 года назад +110

    "if people never do silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done" ludwig wittgenstein (may not be relevant, commenting before watching)

    • @Fetlet
      @Fetlet 4 года назад

      pp

    • @pheenix42
      @pheenix42 4 года назад

      Wittgenstein, a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schleigel.

    • @sanmayajolly1225
      @sanmayajolly1225 3 года назад +1

      This was a silly thing to say lol

    • @hjoehj0996
      @hjoehj0996 3 года назад

      Nice

  • @3nertia
    @3nertia 4 года назад +79

    Fun fact: That Indiana Jones scene was originally written for an elaborate fight with Indy using his whip against the swordsman but Harrison Ford came down with food poisoning and not feeling well Ford asked, "Can't I just shoot him?" xD

  • @denyss5962
    @denyss5962 4 года назад +42

    9:51
    As a chilean I can confirm
    I've never heard about san antonio so I thought "the famous city must be bigger"

    • @CharlieQuartz
      @CharlieQuartz 4 года назад +6

      Except that experiment is no longer true, since the growth of the city DID matter over time and the population of San Antonio is now about 100,000 more than San Diego.

    • @Quario
      @Quario 4 года назад

      Ke wea te pasa con san antonio mono kuliao somo entero choros alla 😡🗡

    • @michaeldew7904
      @michaeldew7904 4 года назад

      @@CharlieQuartz I looked it up. San Antonio is (in 2010) 1,327,407. San Diego is (in 2010) 2,964,000. San Diego (which for some reason I usually end up typing Sand Diego) IS bigger.

    • @bencope780
      @bencope780 4 года назад

      I answer questions with that type of logic all the time.

    • @lordman5497
      @lordman5497 4 года назад +1

      As an Italian, same

  • @chsinger96
    @chsinger96 4 года назад +31

    The real Einstellung Paradox is that the word "Einstellung" can have like a dozen different meanings in English

    • @ideegeniali
      @ideegeniali 2 года назад

      For the best cryptic philosophical or cognitive essays you need write them in German precisely to that effect! Each word must be defined before using it. Practical English won't serve the purpose very well! I'm joking and i'm Italian.

  • @nostalgiafactor733
    @nostalgiafactor733 4 года назад +182

    that's how I define a truly intelligent person: someone with knowledge that is able to escape their mental framework to find solutions without their 'lens.'

    • @1stdragon123
      @1stdragon123 4 года назад +12

      Yeah it's a great sign of high iq, in fact the concave convex mask can be figured out if you have high iq. Also it's a famous schizophrenia test sence they dont fall for optical illusions so they just see it for what it is no figuring it out. With a perfect mask its hard to even tell if its rotating left or right.

    • @theorixlux
      @theorixlux 4 года назад +1

      @@1stdragon123 👍🍆

    • @colorfulchameleon9891
      @colorfulchameleon9891 4 года назад

      I did the efficient way before he explained it, and I felt so proud.

    • @goldenwarrior1186
      @goldenwarrior1186 4 года назад

      Bob Destroyer of English same

    • @theorixlux
      @theorixlux 4 года назад +3

      Intelligence isnt measured in how quickly it takes for you to subtract. It's measured in how many feet you can put in your inner ear canal without causing permanent hearing loss or cancer.

  • @starwarsfool
    @starwarsfool 4 года назад +122

    "Sometimes you just got to get stupid."
    Me standing up:
    My time has come

    • @T0xicBeann
      @T0xicBeann 4 года назад +2

      Star Wars Fool trips while standing up*

  • @WordFyle
    @WordFyle Год назад +3

    3:24 I actually noticed it would be easier to do 23-3 right away :>