Comments on: How to Make Better Decisions

By: devlinwaugh

devlinwaugh — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:36:00 +0000

i calculate everything,in my past (bad boy) i knew all women married or single cannot resist absolute excitement.I found no matter how dull sedentary they were or how extrovert they all responded to the same principle.I don’t condone my actions but realized at an early age my actions affected all male and females in the same way.Now for a rely interesting fact i ate every sweet in the sweet shop and have been celibate for 10 years and still am.I payed my house off by the age of 22,i worked hard and did 3 jobs while i was in study.I am not good looking or wealthy the secret to what this documentary is trying to calculate is confidence.If you are confident you are 100% positive that is the correct decision,doubt is failure.I found most women and men found me attractive because i knew what i wanted, but not what i looked like my clothes or wealth.I do have children also happy,this docu is close but math cannot change peoples personality as they would have to act for there whole life and be something they are not.Basically in lay mans terms if you let your body and mind sync all can achieve anything.

By: Godsclaws

Godsclaws — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:02:00 +0000

what a bad doco. How stupid is it to think you can get a woman based on mathematical percentages??????? They didnt factor in whether the women liked witty conversationlists, whether they were drunk, whether they had a bf already etc etc etc. not even finishing this doco….

By: ObjectiveWesterner

ObjectiveWesterner — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:48:00 +0000

Didn’t even finish watching this incredibly stupid documentary. A mathematical equation that relies on subjective self-ratings? How would we apply such an equation to choosing whether to paint your shed blue or red? Sub-standard stuff.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:06:00 +0000

this documentary seems to also be broaching topic of how neural networks or what Hubbard referred to as “engrams” can effect a person’s decision making ability. In regard to the “top gun” pilots, I have seen reports that they are instructed to not consume garlic no mor than 24 hours before a flight mission. The reason given is that garlic reduces speed of the neural systems. And that having optimum neural speed (speed from transport of sensory information from the sense organ to the brain), processing the sensory information and sending a response signal to the muscle groups that will manifest that response.

By: Carl Frodge

Carl Frodge — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:42:00 +0000

Every British documentary has great music. The odds of this are 9/10.

By: Omar Molina Pinto

Omar Molina Pinto — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:03:00 +0000

thanks man!

By: Anton

Anton — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:09:22 +0000

Wow, this documentary was not at all what I expected, in a disappointing way. I thought it would be covering more explanation and what really is going on in our brains. This just seems like they filmed som experiments and forgot to bring all the questions they were gonna research back on the desk.

By: cezy

cezy — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:03:56 +0000

a very nicely dumbed down version of the expected utility theory and its critiques: loss aversion, framing etc. if any of you is interested in furthering the knowledge, read kahneman and tversky or watch dan ariely on TED

By: Beast

Beast — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:28:56 +0000

Ha ha People are not Logic machines and why would they want to be !

Getting a date has little to do with logical factors ..

By: chandler

chandler — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:55:09 +0000

i liked this. decisions are influenced by mood, what happened just before, and possibly by warmth or cold.

By: TipsyKipsy

TipsyKipsy — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:43:04 +0000

I rather enjoyed this one – it touched on a couple things I already knew… but there were quite a few things I enjoyed, particularly the hot drink/cold drink.

Personally, I didn’t find the math accurate in a mathematical sense so much as interesting to see how it affected people in a psychological sense. It did seem like a batch of arbitrary number crunching, but what it comes down to is how the ‘results’ affected people. Which I think is rather the fun part.

By: akarui

akarui — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:22:59 +0000

I noticed his equations do not even work for floating point numbers. When suggested a value of 7.5 he asked his subject to either pick 7 or 8

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:11:29 +0000

Does a warm handshake have more influence? How long is the priming period? If the conversation is long do the benefits disappear?

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:39:41 +0000

I agree with Clray. Mixing in precognition is just silly and there was wayyy too much cred given to our wacky math professor. His equations were such a sideshow. What a gimmick. A grade 3 student’s conception of odds would yield the same thing. Am I better looking than her? Is she fairly drunk? (let’s hope a grade 3 never asks this one…) Have any other guys hit on her? Looks like I have a chance. You don’t need algebra for that one, folks. You don’t even need grade 4.
I’d also like to take a peek at the COMPLETE data for that hot/cold drink experiment. And what kind of experiment let’s a confederate ask questions when he has an obvious bias? tsk tsk. The slightest difference in facial expression is all it would take to lean the interviewee in one direction or the next. It might not be the drink at all. It just might be the interviewer.
By far the most fascinating part of the doc was the card trick/faces thing. Watching people justify a choice they did not make was really interesting. But the doc should have mentioned that this would only work when the faces are quite similar. If the question was ‘which person is more attractive?’ There is no way I’d confuse an ugly girl and a beautiful girl.
what’s crucial here is that the individuals are close enough in appearance that the differences between them are negligible, or that the interviewee’s decision is whimsical and not based on anything substantial.

By: me

me — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:34:42 +0000

excellent. part 2 sometimes doesn’t show image ?