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Christopher Chabris

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Lewisburg, Saratoga Springs
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Cognitive scientist, professor, author 'Nobody's Fool' (bit.ly/3Wm7rCa) & 'The Invisible Gorilla,' essayist, chess master, poker player, game lover
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Science Relevant to History

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By David P. Barash, Rick Shenkman, Jerome Groopman, Christopher Chabris
| History News Network (US)
Credit: Wiki Commons/HNN staff. Click HERE for our most recent articles. HNN Blogs (R)evolutionary Biology By David P. Barash Stone Age Brain By Rick Shenkman Memory Study of Memory in Psychology Quirks of Memory Everyone Should Know How Memory Speaks  By Jerome Groopman How Not to be the Next Brian Williams By Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons How Memory Works: Interview with Psychologist Daniel L.
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An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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By Sam Zhang, Patrick Heck, Michelle Meyer, Christopher Chabris
| PNAS
An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability Edited by Elke Weber, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; received February 22, 2023; accepted June 26, 2023 Significance In many fields, there has been a long-standing emphasis on inference (precisely estimating an unknown quantity, such as a population average) over prediction (forecasting individual outcomes).
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How the Possibility Grid Can Help You Evaluate Evidence Better

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By Daniel Simons, Christopher Chabris, Amy C. Edmondson, Adam Grant
| Behavioral Scientist
Our ability to focus attention on whatever is before us can be highly efficient, but that efficiency benefits us only when the object of our focus represents the full scope of the problem. If we watch a soccer game by focusing only on the side that possesses the ball, we have a chance of decoding that team’s strategy, but we will learn little about what the defensive side is (or is not) doing to counter it.
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