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#539 Ralph Hertwig - Deliberate Ignorance: Choosing Not to Know

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Information as a Weapon in Defeating Deliberate Ignorance

The way information is sometimes presented to lay people can promote deliberate ignorance because they can't even deal with it. Information could be both a key to liberate us and foster our autonomy but it can also be a weapon to achieve the exact opposite, he says. "We need to think about how do we increase the likelihood that people are actually able to digest information"

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