Last night I spent a completely unreasonable amount of time on Youtube watching old Carbonaro Effect episodes.
It's a "Hidden Camera" show where people are pranked by a street magician... common pranks are showing them impossible products (a window cleaner that cleans "both sides" at once.. a tiny object that contains many very large objects... blowing bubbles that turn into glass...) all basic sleight of hand tricks that convince people something impossible is happening.
The thing is... it's impossible. The most logical conclusion anyone watching him should have is that he is performing a trick. Physics... very basic physics.. and common sense... all out the door. He is a pretty funny con artist too.
Every setup ends with a reveal that they are on a show and he is a magician... he does it the same way every time... he begins the reveal by saying the name of the show in a way that relates to the trick... he will say somethin like, "oh.. it moves because of the Carbonaro Effect... Do you know what that is"?
This is the point of my post.. I have observed dozens (too many) people responding to that question.... it's a setup... there is no "effect" of the sort. It's just the setup for the reveal. But there are basically three groups of responses to "have you heard of the carbonaro effect"
1) No. They never heard of it
2) Yes. Sure I know what that is.
3) OHHHH.. that show! you got me... I didn't recognize you...
answers 1 and 3 are honest... they never heard of it.. or they actually have.
Answer 2... That was the most popular response. The Magician (whose name is Mike Carbonaro, thus the name of the show) then asks them what it is... if they can explain it...
Then the person backpedals...
"Oh I don't know the EXACT definition"
"Oh I've heard of it, but I can't really explain it"
This group of people was the largest. And I noticed a correlation. The dumbest acting people (you have to be a little dumb, or at least very susceptible to being conned to fall for the outlandish stuff he pulls) during the con were the ones most likely to report knowledge of the "Carbonaro Effect" when no such knowledge exists. The more skeptical and presumably intelligent people that didn't just call him out (they don't generally air those unless particularly funny) will simply say they never heard of it (of course not - it's not a thing, except the name of the show they never heard of). Comfort with honesty about what they know and don't know.. understanding the difference between HEARING OF something (like the italian sauce of the same name) and KNOWING ABOUT something.
Dunning-Kruger... a social experiment by street magic. It was both fascinating, and sad. The dumb people fell for it fully and lied about what they knew... the smart people either called it out or just pondered over it and reported honestly what they knew was so and what they did not know.
It's a "Hidden Camera" show where people are pranked by a street magician... common pranks are showing them impossible products (a window cleaner that cleans "both sides" at once.. a tiny object that contains many very large objects... blowing bubbles that turn into glass...) all basic sleight of hand tricks that convince people something impossible is happening.
The thing is... it's impossible. The most logical conclusion anyone watching him should have is that he is performing a trick. Physics... very basic physics.. and common sense... all out the door. He is a pretty funny con artist too.
Every setup ends with a reveal that they are on a show and he is a magician... he does it the same way every time... he begins the reveal by saying the name of the show in a way that relates to the trick... he will say somethin like, "oh.. it moves because of the Carbonaro Effect... Do you know what that is"?
This is the point of my post.. I have observed dozens (too many) people responding to that question.... it's a setup... there is no "effect" of the sort. It's just the setup for the reveal. But there are basically three groups of responses to "have you heard of the carbonaro effect"
1) No. They never heard of it
2) Yes. Sure I know what that is.
3) OHHHH.. that show! you got me... I didn't recognize you...
answers 1 and 3 are honest... they never heard of it.. or they actually have.
Answer 2... That was the most popular response. The Magician (whose name is Mike Carbonaro, thus the name of the show) then asks them what it is... if they can explain it...
Then the person backpedals...
"Oh I don't know the EXACT definition"
"Oh I've heard of it, but I can't really explain it"
This group of people was the largest. And I noticed a correlation. The dumbest acting people (you have to be a little dumb, or at least very susceptible to being conned to fall for the outlandish stuff he pulls) during the con were the ones most likely to report knowledge of the "Carbonaro Effect" when no such knowledge exists. The more skeptical and presumably intelligent people that didn't just call him out (they don't generally air those unless particularly funny) will simply say they never heard of it (of course not - it's not a thing, except the name of the show they never heard of). Comfort with honesty about what they know and don't know.. understanding the difference between HEARING OF something (like the italian sauce of the same name) and KNOWING ABOUT something.
Dunning-Kruger... a social experiment by street magic. It was both fascinating, and sad. The dumb people fell for it fully and lied about what they knew... the smart people either called it out or just pondered over it and reported honestly what they knew was so and what they did not know.