Can You Trust Kurzgesagt Videos?
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it when debating Kurzgesagt's credibility and its corrections and removals of earlier content.
What it is
Kurzgesagt addresses whether viewers can trust its videos, describing its research process and how it handles older videos with errors or overstated claims.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2020 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Cites CaptArmchair · 2020-09 · on “The Social Dilemma”
> I think this explanation, as well as that from the video, is layman psychology at best Well, kurzgesagt back their statements with references to academic research: [LINK] They also vet their videos with experts and are transparent in their methodology: [this video] > Yes, there are factors or mechanisms that drive your desire for belonging, but it is a pretty unconvincing observation. It doesn't have to be tribalism to prefer being around people you trust. Why would you assume that I didn't consider other explanations? > FOMO is more connected to the fear of the unknown and fear of loss in my opinion. In what way wouldn't "the fear of the unkown" or "the fear of loss" be less connected with the
Cites irjustin · 2022-03 · on “My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll”
> physical vs psychological dependence is kind of outdated I wouldn't say outdated, but I do agree it is 100% up for debate. Kurzgesagt did a really similar video[0] on addiction, but the basically walked it back from such a hard line stance in a correction/update video[1]. It's not so easy to tease apart the social vs the physical vs the pure mental. > Just the same, you can be addicted to coffee. Caffeine is a drug. Right, I think you're agreeing with me. That they have similar aspects, but to treat them the same - like putting caffine on Class 1 - would be insane. [0] [LINK] [1] [this video]
Cites Dextro · 2022-05 · on “PBS SpaceTime”
I believe they did it on this video called "Can You Trust Kurzgesagt?". They also removed a few of their older videos at the time because they had this exact issue of presenting as fact some things that were not at all certain. [this video]