⛓ Linkage
Some tweets, an ad idea, links, video learning, books and podcasts.
📽 Would You Use This Ad Trickery if You Were Advertising on YouTube?
YouTube has conditioned us to click the ‘Skip Ad’ Button after 4 seconds of an annoying advertisements before we start to watch a video. 😞
See this video with an ad?
The product is software called Ad Remover but that Skip Ad button is part of the embedded ad. It is over-laid at a random time while watching the video. We click “Skip Ad” to get rid of it, BUT the ad redirects us to the advertisers web funnel page. Instant website visitors!
It fooled me. Genius! Do you agree?
🕷 Stan Lee on how #Spiderman was born.
📺 About VIDEDIA, A video learning website.
Videdia is the video encyclopedia where the learning is easy because you learn with videos. Watch a few quick videos and become knowledgeable about any topic. Feed your curiosity, learn for the sake of learning, or start down the path to becoming an expert in any topic. Videdia is the place to learn and get informed!
Video + Encyclopedia = Videdia
More than a 1000 categories, each with how to videos about the subject. A fast way to find useful information, from a list without aggregating your own YouTube playlist. The site could have been called ‘Playlists on Demand’.
🏢 How to Start a Business categories:
Great resource, not well known.
💰 Compounding Interest Fact:
Q) If you invest $400/month for 40 years with a 10% annual return, how much will you have saved?
A) $2.5 million.
= Exponential Growth. 🚀
🧠 Cognitive Reflection Test
83 percent of people miss at least 1 question:
(1) A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? _____ cents
(2) If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? _____ minutes
(3) In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? _____ days
answers below
The cognitive reflection test (CRT) is a task designed to measure a person's tendency to override an incorrect "gut" response and engage in further reflection to find a correct answer. It was first described in 2005 by psychologist Shane Frederick. The CRT has a moderate positive correlation with measures of intelligence, such as the Intelligence Quotient test, and it correlates highly with various measures of mental heuristics
📖 New Book
All about this new book, by Steven Pinker, ‘RATIONALITY’
“In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself as a voice of positivity.” – New York Times
Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates’s "new favorite book of all time”) answers all the questions here.
I hope you enjoyed this issue of the Deplatformable Newsletter.
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Answer
(1) 5 cents (not 10)
(2) 5 minutes (not 100)
(3) 47 days (not 24)
Extra explanation
(1) A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? _____ cents
Say the ball costs X. Then the bat costs $1 more, so it is X + 1. So we have bat + ball = X + (X + 1) = 1.1 because together they cost $1.10. This means 2X + 1 = 1.1, then 2X = 0.1, so X = 0.05. This means the ball costs 5 cents and the bat costs $1.05
(2) If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? _____ minutes
If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, then it takes 1 machine 5 minutes to make 1 widget (each machine is making a widget in 5 minutes). If we have 100 machines working together, then each can make a widget in 5 minutes. So there will be 100 widgets in 5 minutes.
(3) In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? _____ days
Every day FORWARD the patch doubles in size. So every day BACKWARDS means the patch halves in size. So on day 47 the lake is half full.
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