the people areasymmetrical updaters in the sense that good news has a bigger impact than bad news. if people estimate that they are a six on the scale and an outsider says i'm an eight, i've learned. if they say i'm a six and an outsider says they are a4, then that isn't true. people believe the good news, not the bad news. if this is true for many personal things, with respect to the risk of having diabetes, insomnia, infertility, being vandalized, being trapped in an elevator, having a mouse or rat in your house, that sounds a little more like dr. seuss. apologies for that. then the information processing regularity is the news. people will update much more reliably with that than bad news. with bad news, they will say that his noise. good news they would say okay. so, we know that there is a asymmetry in and it turns out they have neurological foundations. it is an identifiable part of the brain that blocks updating with respect to that is. and if you zap it, then the good news and bad news effect disappears. okay. so, what i was interested in and i am interested in is how this