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You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are
SisyphusRedeemed · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2013–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 16 other talk videos tagged Scientific method & science communication, the mean is 3.1 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 3.4 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
20% of its 5 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2013–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 27 minutes 2 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2011-05-26.
- Channel / speaker
- SisyphusRedeemed
- Verified runtime
- 27m 2s
- YouTube upload date
- 2011-05-26
- Hacker News mention years
- 2013–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Scientific method & science communication. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You Have No Idea How Wrong You AreCurrent video | 1 | 1 | 20% | — | 27m 2s | 2011-05-26 |
| The Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Knowtalk · Google TechTalks | 11 | 15 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 63m 43s | 2011-01-12 |
| Veritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explainstalk · Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | 6 | 6 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 75m 11s | 2025-04-08 |
| The mathematics of weight loss | Ruben Meerman | TEDxQUT (edited version)talk · TEDx Talks | 6 | 5 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 21m 26s | 2013-10-11 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Nobel Disease”. Its short rationale: Cited on how we can know when we're right.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Scientists warned about climate change in 1965. Nothing was done”. Its short rationale: Cited to argue against scientific consensus.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Why people believe in conspiracy theories – and how to change their minds”. Its short rationale: Cited to argue humans have little idea how wrong they are.