Scientific life-hacks to avoid being fooled | Emma Frans | TEDxStockholm

Our own brain fools us daily. Luckily, we can all follow three simple steps to make sure this doesn't happen. In a funny and very relevant talk, Emma Frans explains how science can help us fight the cognitive biases that cloud our judgement, ultimately saving us from fooling ourselves.
Dr. Emma Frans is an epidemiologist and researcher in the fields of pharmacoepidemiology and psychiatry at the University of Oxford and at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
Truly passionate about knowledge sharing, Emma is a renown science communicator even outside Academia. Besides her widely followed Twitter account, counting tens of thousands of followers, she writes columns for one of Sweden’s biggest newspapers, where she examines health claims.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@123sagor]

So simple but still so hard! Especially thinking that what the annoying colleague says may be true ....

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1:48 ooo that stinks🤐

[@thedude4795]

Apples and pears!
"Many people think that comparing the death rates of different countries is like comparing apples and pears"
-Emma Frans
Äpplen och päron!
"Många menar att jämföra olika länders dödstal är som att jämföra äpplen och päron"
-Emma Frans

[@tso4569]

This is a pretty cool vid

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Kvackademikern nr 1 at it again

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hello 1st

[@hlol7669]

This made me lose brain cells. So embarrassing for this poor girl pretending to be a scientist, who made her do this?

[@shakibrahman80]

cant even understand a single word. what a load of bullcrap

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