You don’t experience the world as it is, you experience the world as your brain perceives it. Welcome to another episode of ‘Things our Brain Can’t Handle’.
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From the CD ‘Phantom words and other curiosities’. A short sample of Diana’s text has been used to demonstrate the effect. Care has been taken to comply with US fair use and UK fair dealing rules. Further fascinating reading and links to her publications can be found here – https://deutsch.ucsd.edu
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Yanny/Laurel
Further fascinating reading on the science behind ‘Yanny/Laurel”.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/dont-rest-on-your-laurels/560483/
The discovery of the ambiguity is credit Katie Heizel. Care has been taken to comply with US fair use and UK fair dealing rules.
(Wikipedia) The mixed re-recording was created by students who played the sound of the word “Laurel” while re-recording the playback amid background noise in the room. The audio clip of the main word “Laurel” originated in 2007 from a recording of opera singer Jay Aubrey Jones who spoke the word “laurel”.
Yanny/Laurel is used in this video and is assumed to be under copyright. Rationalle for usage under US fair use and UK fair dealing is 1) The sample is being used for commentary on the recording in question. 2) The recording is of inferior quality to the original (and includes background music).
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Fun fact: this channel is amazing and highly underrated and I’ve been subscribed for a while and this comment will get pinned
All of this is because our brains are hard wired to seek patterns.
I don't like the never pause for a breath style.
Hey Tez.
So, believe half of what you see, nothing of what you here and ignore the survivors.
You're right. My brain is melting.
😶🌫
Many years ago, there was a conman with a website called Reverse Speech. A conspiracy theory author. This website was filled with mp3 files of hidden messages in reversed speech lines of famous people.
He was tricking everyone by naming the hiperlinks with exactly what he wanted us to listen, it was very compelling. Somehow I figured out what was tricking my brain, and I had to look at a random ling looking through my eyelashes to blurry the image and make me not read what I was supposed to listen to. and obviously, it was all gibberish.
And yes, reading the link and re-listening, the gibberish magically turned to a spooky message…
I'm actually proud of myself for that moment. Never trust your senses, especially your hearing. It's a miracle that we can have conversations at all…
This video absolutely proves a point about perceived bias. Recently, my flat-earther brother showed me a video of pilots apparently admitting that the earth is flat. For me, it was a video that was heavily edited that showed pilots admitting that earth APPEARS flat, because the cruising height of commercial airliners is below the 35000 ft that is necessary to see the earth's curve. But for my brother, it was a video of pilots privately admitting that the earth is ACTUALLY flat. We both saw the same video and it confirmed our own separate beliefs. Of course, I have science to back me up and he has obscure Youtube videos, but as neither of us have ever seen the earth's curve, we have to rely on our own sources to prove our points. The statistician that realised the bias in planes that survived WW2 attacks does, however, support my preference that science and maths is more reliable that a Youtube video – even ones as good as found on this channel…😁
Survivor bias was new to me. Thanks.
Fair play to Very Nearly Interesting, a nice distraction from the Olympics
Fascinating!!!
Thought I was gonna have a stroke by the end of this video. Crazy stuff😂❤
Another fun fact, Tez – a lot of people who enjoy your content as much as I do would love to be able to support you with something like Patreon, or by joining your channel, or by doing that 'buy me a coffee' thing…
I did suggest it once, so I think I'll keep suggesting it until you SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!
I always love your videos! I heard baa for both takes btw. I hope you’ve been to Canada and back already. Also: thank you for the Brontë channel suggestion! I love that channel too! Hope all is well!
Everything is the past.
There is no way to be in the present.
At best you have the freshest past.
Great to see you uploading fresh content again! This channel is cool.
I heard ba, gibberish, and yarrel
4:02 lol you being British I heard Baa and Faa lol 😅
🙀Mr vni you can go off people you know-signed Tiddles🐾🐾🐈
i take your point about those lovely Tudor buildings but i still say a row of essentially mass produced Victorian terraces looks better than any comparably sized new build, they do just look nicer
Excellent as ever Tez. More power to you mate.
The table where you were cracking up, just a pucnic table, or were you sat in a beer garden per chance?
I wonder if this also explains why the misheard lyric phenomenon is so big…when you’re told lyrics sound like something else, you hear the something else! This was so effective you had me feeling dizzy!😆
Another common sort of bias that messes up decisions is a version of the confirmation bias where the person or group will tend to think that the thing they just spent a bunch on money on is a good idea even when there is evidence against. You see this in the "safety of cars" and "durability of clothes" and many other places. Just about every car these days comes with driver assistance features that the drivers come to rely on but if you look at the death rate in the US, it has been rising. People are buying clothing that is basically disposable. In this case, you would really want those materials to biodegrade.
Be safe Pomy Lolz
That last theory about buildings may be flawed because I can't think of one modern building built in my lifetime that will still be there in 500 years. We just don't build Taj Mahal's and Versailles anymore because of the cost in materials and labor make it impractical. It's scary to think that if they had drywall a 1000 years ago we might not have beautiful architecture to admire today.
I never heard greenstorm, brainstorm, far, or yanny. Kind of left me puzzled.
Yaaaaaay he's back 🎉
Dude keep up the good work. Youre one of the underrated quality information youtubers in my list
I wonder how blindness affects what we hear. I’m legally blind and to me it seemed like you were saying baa like we say a sheep would say. That I’m sure was also due to accent since I’m American.
Love your channel! Always interesting!
I only heard Bar in the second video
i might leave a comment, after deciding whether i'm team yanny or team LAUREL.
I get that survivor bias is a thing but I never understood how people got the bullet hole one wrong.
16:32 Can't stop laughing!!!!
What happens if you hear ’yanel’ instead of yanny or laurel?
This is mind blowing sorry brain blowing !!!
Still absorbing !!
Thank you
You have fostered a feeling of inadequacy in how I think of myself with the sound experiments you put forward. I was hearing no difference in any of the examples. Could it be that a certain percentage of people are immune to this effect? Good video, Jersey Bill
Your right by brain can not handle this video turning off😂
Heard far on the first word then it went to bar, the singing worked, only heard brain needle, Moral not Laurel, I did Mugurk in my degree. A lot of people think that tower bridge is the oldest bridge in London it's just how it was built.
I really enjoyed this video. It has changed my perception of how i see things.
Sorry, this is long. I'm autistic with audio processing difficulties. In the audio section, I couldn't tell the difference between the first example of audio from the second. Even when I tried to make myself hear the word differently, I was completely unable to do so. I can always tell the natural sound from the folly sound. I have to be deeply engrossed in a movie to be able to ignore the folly effects. (Yay, LOTR)
Interestingly, I have done sound design for theater and was told I'm quite good by a Broadway sound designer.
I'm just wondering how much my autism plays into this. Very interesting.
This is so cool. I wanted to know why when I was lip reading the speakers voice was actually louder that when I was not lip reading.
working on lots of WW2 tv programmes. You only hear the heroic / amazing survival stories. The dead don't talk.
showing Mr. Beast as The YouTube star 7 days ago… 3 days later and…………..