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Noise Annoys

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Is There a Bias in Our Natural Environment?

The mugshot bias is a great example of how a bias in our natural evolutionary environment had let's just be clear. There were probably a lot of unfair results of this bias back in caveman types but it was a heuristic that was actually there's a reason why we have biases towards clean faces. So if people are optimistically biased there's a good evolutionary account for that. People show something called the planning fallacy which is a form of optimistic bias they think projects will take less long than they'll actually take. If you're running away from a creature who's trying to kill you you ought to go really fast and not think what's going to happen in 20 years if my legs are

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