About the Illusion of Information Adequacy

What happens when to a person who fails to expose themselves to only a few "news" sources? What does it do to their world view when they fail to take affirmative steps to engage with a broadbased news ecosystem that includes viewpoints they disagree with? For instance, what happens when they only follow legacy (corporate) news outlets? What happens when they refuse to consider independent journalists? What I've noticed is that they are much more confident in their opinions, not less. What's going on? At X, Owen Gregoian offers an explanation of the "Illusion of of information adequacy." Excerpt:

Why We’re Confident with Only Half the Story | Neuroscience News

Summary: A new study reveals that people often overestimate the amount of information they have when making decisions, a phenomenon researchers call the “illusion of information adequacy.”

Participants who were only given partial information about a situation were just as confident in their decisions as those who had the complete story. They believed they had enough facts and thought others would likely make the same choice. However, when some participants were later presented with the opposing view, many were open to changing their decision, suggesting that having more complete information can bridge misunderstandings.

Key Facts

- People feel confident in decisions, even with only partial information.

- This “illusion of information adequacy” leads to overconfidence in judgments.

- Additional information often leads to more informed, balanced decision-making.

Source: Ohio State University

Of course, the same problems result with the government or the legacy news consortium limit your access to alternate viewpoints. In these circumstances we are fooled by a false consensus. It looks like everyone agrees, but this is only because everyone else has been censored. That leads to such things as allowing others to put a dangerous so-called vaccine into your arm.  When free speech is limited, it leads to things like this:

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Andrew Huberman Discusses How to Get to Flow

Interesting post based on Andrew Huberman's discussion. First, what is flow? From Grok:

The concept of "flow" in the context of psychology was developed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He introduced this idea in his seminal work, where he described flow as a state of complete immersion and optimal experience in an activity. Csikszentmihalyi's research focused on how people could achieve happiness through engaging in activities that challenge their skills just enough to keep them absorbed and intrinsically motivated.

But how does one get to the flow state. Huberman cautions that even though the state of flow can be blissful, getting to flow can be a struggle. On X, Billy Oppenheimer summarizes Huberman's discussion:

I think about this twice a day.

Every morning when I sit down to read & again when I begin to work, I say to myself,

“Accept the initial agitation.”

When you try to focus, Andrew Huberman explains, “the brain circuits that turn on first are of the stress system.”

Meaning:

“The agitation and stress that you feel at the beginning of something—when you’re trying to lean into it and you can’t focus: you feel agitated and your mind’s jumping all over the place—that is just a gate. You have to pass through that gate to get to the focus component.”

There’s a common misconception, @hubermanlab continues: “the misunderstanding around how these brain circuits work has led to this idea...a kind of obsession with the idea that we have to feel good in order to be productive.”

“And nothing could be further from the truth.”

The truth is it’s the reverse: we have to be productive—we have to start working, we have to lean in and get going, accepting the initial agitation—in order to feel good.

So along with “accept the initial agitation,” sometimes—when I don’t feel especially good, motivated, interested, or energized—I say to myself,

“Forget how you feel right now.”

“It will feel good,” Huberman says, “but there’s a whole staircase in which it feels kind of lousy...The early stages of hard work and focus are always going to feels like agitation, stress, and confusion.”

“Remember: there’s a gate of entry. You have to wade through some sewage before you can swim in clear water. That’s the way I always think about it.”

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Ships Passing in the Night

I once canvassed for Bernie. Some people who then respected me for those political views now think I'm a right wing zealot. How do I convince them that because they limit their news diet to legacy outlets NYT/CNN/MSNBC/NPR/WP, that their minds have been hacked, for years, by hundred of billions of dollars of CIA propaganda (including through CIA cutout USAID), that they know almost nothing about what has really been going on and that their current state of willful ignorance disqualifies them from participating in meaningful conversation?

Today I posted this on FB: One more from Mike Benz. The fingerprints of the CIA are all over Burisma, where the completely unqualified Hunter Biden sat on the board pulling down $80K/month. If you are still limiting your news diet to NYT/WP/CNN/MSNBC/NPR, you are committing citizenship malpractice. Luckily, the evidence of corruption is pouring out into the public eye at an astounding rate. If you are not actively digesting independent news sources, however, you are almost totally in the dark. That is why I don't respond to most comments here. I can easily see who has been captured by corporate news. You aren't required to kick your addiction to NYT/WP/CNN/MSNBC/NPR, but if you don't, you will remain someone else's sucker. You will be abdicating self-autonymy. That said, it might not be your choice anymore. It might not be your fault in any meaningful way because the tools they have been using on us are extremely sophisticated and they are ubiquitous. Here's one clue: If you have decided that anyone is radioactive (that you should never listen to anything they say or to any questions they are asking), the deep state has you exactly where they want you. Luckily, critical formerly suppressed information is now pouring into the public light. I sincerely hope that many of you start your red-pill journey ASAP.

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Another Oopsie in Favor of the Narrative by Legacy Media

This is not a new low for legacy media. This is what they do all day every day. They are serving their masters. Journalism has absolutely nothing to do with how they handle stories with political implications.

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