One in ten French people still believe the earth may be flat; One quarter of Australians think that cavemen and dinosaurs existed at the same time; One in nine Brits think the 9/11 attacks were a US government conspiracy; 15 per cent of Americans believe that the media or government adds secret mind-controlling signals

https://www.alainguillot.com/bobby-duffy/ Bobby Duffy is Professor of Public Policy and author of The Generation Myth: Why When You're Born Matters Less Than You Think. Get the book here: https://amzn.to/3GlB92z

Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have basically the same values. But, do they? Michael Shermer speaks with social researcher Bobby Duffy who has spent years studying generational distinctions. In The Generation Myth, he argues that our gener

In today's episode Professor Bobby Duffy explains why we are wrong about a lot of things like murder rate and the number of teenage moms. We talk about fascinating concepts like: emotional innumeracy, confirmation bias, rosy retrospection and other biases. We also get into the dangers of not having a balanced view of t

Bobby Duffy draws on his research into public perception across more than forty countries, offering a sweeping account of the stubborn problem of human delusion: how society breeds it, why it will never go away, and what our misperceptions say about what we really believe. How do we consume information differently now

What percentage of the population are immigrants? How bad is unemployment? How much sex do people have? These questions are important and interesting, but most of us get the answers wrong. Research shows that people often wildly misunderstand the state of the world, regardless of age, sex, or education. And though the