You Are Not So Smart
Hosted by David McRaney · You Are Not So Smart
4.6from 2,319 ratings
- 345
- Episodes
- 57
- Transcribed
- 2,319
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2012
- First episode
- 1M
- YouTube views
About You Are Not So Smart
You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion. In each episode, we explore what we've learned so far about reasoning, biases, judgments, and decision-making.
- Publisher
- You Are Not So Smart
- Category
- education · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Apr 2012
- Latest episode
- 14 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
57 of 345 episodes have a transcript.
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
348 - The Dress - Decoder Ring
31 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
347 - Under Alien Skies - Phil Plait
17 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
346 - No Nocebo Effect - Helen Pilcher
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348 - The Dress - Decoder Ring
Published 14 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And in fact, preserving color constancy is such a priority for our brains, you can trick them. There's this optical illusion, an image of a strawberry tart. We'll link to it in the show notes so you can see for yourself. It's on a white plate on a wood table, and the whole thing has been overexposed in teal. So everything looks a little washed out and blue. But you can still tell the strawberries are red. A deep strawberry red. Except they're not. There is no red in the image at all. We just know strawberries are supposed to be red, and we use it as an anchor and adjust the light in the picture accordingly. […]
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- Phil Plait
- Helen Pilcher
- Thomas Levenson
- Tenelle Porter
- Matthew Facciani
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 1,429,539
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 1,712 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 607 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100
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- Quality
- 84
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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Who hosts You Are Not So Smart?
David McRaney host the show. Published by You Are Not So Smart.
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