Back to episode — Episode 792 Scott Adams - Impeachment Stains, Some New Reality Filters to Ease Anxiety
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re — for somebody who was a Macintosh user to say, now I've decided to change my mind, I'll become an IBM PC user. But it was very common for somebody to go the other way and just stay there. And that's a really powerful frame. As soon as you hear that you say to yourself, okay, that tells me everything I need to know that it's just a one-way trip. Now let's take that analogy — and again analogie…
← Previous segment →correlation. It might be a weird correlation but women who have been on birth control pills had one specific part of the brain that shrunk 6 percent on average. It was smaller. So let me correct what I just said. The study did not show that being on the pill shrunk that part of the brain. It only showed that people on the pill had on average a smaller part of that brain. Could be some other reason but it's hard to know what that would be.
However I ask you this. Have you ever had this experience, just anecdotally, of seeing somebody who went on birth control and their personality changed? Have any of you seen that? I've seen it twice. I saw people who basically became different people fairly quickly after going on birth control pills. Now I don't know if that's causation or correlation because it's just two people, right? It's just anecdotal. I'm not aware of any studies that would back that up except this one that I was just talking about.
It's hard for me to imagine that you could put any kind of pill in a human being, male or female — oh my god I'm seeing a lot of yeses here. Okay, I wasn't expecting that. Court really, frankly. Now I don't know if all the yeses are coming from men. Now be aware this could be confirmation bias, right? This is sort of the perfect confirmation bias topic and domain. So I'm not gonna make a claim. It's a question.
And I ask you this: what are the odds that putting a powerful hormone-altering substance in your body, be you male or female o
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r whatever gender flavor you like, what are the odds it wouldn't change your personality? Because without being a doctor it feels to me like the odds would be zero. Any change to your hormonal structure almost certainly is gonna have an effect on who you are at some fundamental level. Well I've never seen this many yeses. That was okay. How many — so I'm wondering if this is mostly men because it…
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