Let’s find out, intuitively what do you think kills more people in America, Homicide or Suicide? Floods or Tuberculosis? Tornadoes or Asthma? Sharks or Deer’s?
Well there are 50% more deaths from Suicides than Homicides, 9 times more deaths from Tuberculosis than Floods, 80 times more deaths from Asthma than Floods and 300 times more deaths from Deer’s than Sharks.
That’s right Bambi is a straight up killing machine. (mostly though hitting one with a car and causing a fatal accident)
Intuition is affected by something called the availability bias and essentially causes us, when estimating the probability of something happening to look in our memory for available information, the big problem here is that the things we attach the most emotion to are the things we remember not the things that happen the most often.
It’s not just your intuition you have to worry about, what about the rest of your brain? Well if your up for messing with your head watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKa0eaKsdA0
or this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jh4AHbdEgU
Your brain won’t let you see the inside of a mask in the video above because you never see the inside of someone’s face its not a skill that a human being needs so your brain ignores what you tell it and does its own thing.
It discounts the yellow dots in the second one because by focusing on the green dot your brain decides all on its own that the yellow ones aren’t important.
The simple fact is that not everything that you think you know is true and not everything that you think you can rely on will always serve you in the best possible way this is way we all need help from time to time and sometimes it’s just to see things clearly.
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