Just watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary (Theranos) again.
A psychologists did a great study. He asked volunteers to throw a die (dice). He said that the top number would win them face value dollar. Throw a 3, you get 3 dollars. And so on. But, he said 'decide before you throw whether you want the top or bottom' and declare after the throw. It was unsurprising how often when a 1 was thrown the thrower called 'bottom' (six).
He then did the study again with a lie detector (detects conflict of emotion and a heart rate rush). Yep, the lies were detected.
He then repeated the study and said that the dollars you win go to a charity of your choice. The 'remarkable' claims of 'bottom' when a 1 or 2 was thrown continued. BUT the lie detector detected no lies.
So....you lie with no conscience when you believe the lie is a good lie. Have a think about that.....
This is how Elizabeth Holmes sold Theranos. If it worked it would be brilliant. So when it didn't work she bullied staff to lie and fake. She had decided that if she was right it would be amazing, so when it wasn't (and she never had the skills, only the 'vision') she kept digging.
Beware politicians who have a vision and never admit the vision may be flawed. The more amazing the vision the greater the risk that a delusional psychopath will sell it and sell it, until everyone is ****ed.
You can decide for yourselves which recent politicians have decided they see a vision, and have pursued it, even after it was palpably wrong, and they cracked on anyway....
Elizabeth Holmes convinced Henry Kissinger and Rupert Murdoch she was a visionary.
I found this very interesting. Add in confirmation bias and there you have it. Stalin. Hitler. Trump. Thatcher. Blair. Johnson. People supported them.
So how do we do better....for ourselves, for our nation, for our future? How do we avoid following pied pipers? How do we avoid the most catestrophic charlatanry?
Tricky.
A psychologists did a great study. He asked volunteers to throw a die (dice). He said that the top number would win them face value dollar. Throw a 3, you get 3 dollars. And so on. But, he said 'decide before you throw whether you want the top or bottom' and declare after the throw. It was unsurprising how often when a 1 was thrown the thrower called 'bottom' (six).
He then did the study again with a lie detector (detects conflict of emotion and a heart rate rush). Yep, the lies were detected.
He then repeated the study and said that the dollars you win go to a charity of your choice. The 'remarkable' claims of 'bottom' when a 1 or 2 was thrown continued. BUT the lie detector detected no lies.
So....you lie with no conscience when you believe the lie is a good lie. Have a think about that.....
This is how Elizabeth Holmes sold Theranos. If it worked it would be brilliant. So when it didn't work she bullied staff to lie and fake. She had decided that if she was right it would be amazing, so when it wasn't (and she never had the skills, only the 'vision') she kept digging.
Beware politicians who have a vision and never admit the vision may be flawed. The more amazing the vision the greater the risk that a delusional psychopath will sell it and sell it, until everyone is ****ed.
You can decide for yourselves which recent politicians have decided they see a vision, and have pursued it, even after it was palpably wrong, and they cracked on anyway....
Elizabeth Holmes convinced Henry Kissinger and Rupert Murdoch she was a visionary.
I found this very interesting. Add in confirmation bias and there you have it. Stalin. Hitler. Trump. Thatcher. Blair. Johnson. People supported them.
So how do we do better....for ourselves, for our nation, for our future? How do we avoid following pied pipers? How do we avoid the most catestrophic charlatanry?
Tricky.
