Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reasonhthttp://www.dan.sperber.fr/
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The Role of Reason in Confirmation Biases
Less than 50% of participants in experiments give the right answer. People use reasoning to confirm their biases or opinions they already have, he says. 'It's an example of actually what in psychological literature is known as a confirmation bias' The role of reason is rationalization, not the discovery of truth, writes Dr Boulden.
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