Alan Selby High Performance Training

06/09/2020

08/09/2019

“Science is not a belief system”
Confirmation Bias
Cognitive Dissonance
Dunning-Kruger Effect

3 biases that impact what we THINK we know

What shapes our perceptions (and misperceptions) about science? In an eye-opening talk, meteorologist J. Marshall Shepherd explains how confirmation bias, th...

08/05/2019

https://ericcressey.com/10-ways-to-remain-athletic

Back in my early-to-mid-20s, my focus shifted into powerlifting and away from a “traditional” athletic career. While I got a ton stronger, I can’t say that I felt any more athleti…

05/03/2019

03/24/2019

03/16/2019

This is stupid. How about instead of switching from one extreme to another we eat meat and vegetables as part of a well-balanced diet? Yet people people get drawn into these extreme, hard-to-follow diets that are unnecessarily restrictive and therefore probably deficient in some essential nutrients.

Alma-Jade Chanter was committed to veganism from 13. But when her teeth started snapping in two she decided it was time to change her ways

02/27/2019

https://www.precisionnutrition.com/calories-in-calories-out

02/15/2019

Nutrition is often a religion and people use anecdote to prove their beliefs.
Classic case of confirmation bias where people believe first and search for only confirmatory evidence that supports their belief and justifies why conflicting evidence is no good.
Good practitioners follow an evidence-based approach and don’t try to sell snake oil. They look at the bulk of the evidence and can evaluate the difference between good and bad science and look at the evidence with an open mind and be willing to change their opinion based on where the evidence leads.

Nutrition is often seen as a belief system. In other words, the answer to “What should I eat?” is often based on faith, magical thinking, emotional attachments, and/or what feels “truthy”, rather than on real evidence or the scientific method. Until we fix this, nutrition will get more confu...