{"id":8901,"date":"2015-06-07T10:35:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T15:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2015-06-07T10:35:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T15:35:24","slug":"tales-from-the-bizzaro-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8901","title":{"rendered":"Tales From the Bizzaro World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/Tales From the Bizzaro World\" target=\"_blank\">Tales From the Bizzaro World<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Back in the 1960s, DC Comics introduced a parallel Earth called Bizarro, where everything is inverted and everyone is insane. They even have their own wacky Superman, which ends up being a formidable foe of his sane counterpart in our world.<\/p>\n<p>Or not in our world perhaps. Some events make us question\u00a0in which of the two we might actually be living in: what if it was some version of Bizarro?<\/p>\n<p>Over the last decades scientists have been researching certain quirks in our brain, or cognitive biases, that make us act in rather illogical and peculiar ways under certain circumstances. Since Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman first introduced this notion in 1972, a growing\u00a0body of evidence suggests\u00a0that we may\u00a0not be as rational as we once thought. And this impacts many areas of our lives, including our beliefs, attitudes towards certain events, political affiliations and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>A less scientific explanation for our illogical behaviors is that they may simply be the result of our imperfect human condition. That, or something in our environments could be poisoning our reasoning (we would argue, quite acutely in the case of Keynesian economists) similar to what happened to the Romans after they started using led in everyday life artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason, consider the examples presented below, drawn from the fields of economics, politics, health, society and even religion. Now, to be clear, we don&#8217;t mean to pick on any country or anyone in particular, much less on their beliefs (except for those Keynesians). Remember, in the Bizarro World everyone is mad so presumably we are all in this together.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s proceed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tales From the Bizzaro World Back in the 1960s, DC Comics introduced a parallel Earth called Bizarro, where everything is inverted and everyone is insane. They even have their own wacky Superman, which ends up being a formidable foe of his sane counterpart in our world. Or not in our world perhaps. Some events make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[6197,1251,6198,6200,658,6199],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-bizzaro-world","tag-cognitive-bias","tag-erico-tavares","tag-irrationality","tag-psychology","tag-rationality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8902,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions\/8902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}