Gary Isaac Wolf
Gary Isaac Wolf is a science journalist and co-founder of the Quantified Self movement, author of "The Quantified Self: Learning to Observe" and former contributing editor at Wired.
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Sep 29, 2026
Deborah GordonHOST
Can you say something more about that? Because that's the part of it I didn't get so clearly as the distinction between confidence and competence.
Gary Isaac WolfGUEST
Okay, these are great questions, and you've plunged all the way in, and so I will not forget to answer your question about blindness to automatic behavior.
Gary Isaac WolfGUEST
But before I do, I just want to distinguish between the way we think about evidence in biomedicine and the way we think about evidence in what I call personal science, in a personal context.
Gary Isaac WolfGUEST
Because the role of evidence in biomedicine is to explain, investigate, and justify interventions that will be applied to many people.
Gary Isaac WolfGUEST
And that's extremely important, right? If you're going to market a product or put a drug...
Gary Isaac WolfGUEST
you know, into dispensaries, right? You have to really know something about how that drug is going to affect the population of people who may be using it.
Gary Isaac WolfGUEST
So you need a certain kind of evidence, right? And we have a whole system of developing that evidence.
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