095 - The Backfire Effect - Part Three
You Are Not So Smart
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What Is Going on With the War in Iraq?
In the U.S., people who knew that things were corrected and turned out to be false later on, they still believed in that. In Australia and Germany, when they knew something was false, they no longer believed it. People are just less likely as a population to harbor that skepticism than people who lived in other regions. Scientists live in a world where facts usually work on people with some struggle, but they still work. But as the AI researcher Eliza Yodkowski once wrote, science is smarter than scientists.
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