
207. John Petrocelli — The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Gift of Shaken Confidence
Most people walk around with their personal data collection and the and they have incredible over confidence in what they believe to be true. I mean, every single simester, in my judgment and decision making, i'll ask students just basic questions. And so this is an old test, easy to replicate, just on basic things that people can easy things for people to think about. The problem with sort of bullshit comcommun ations and reasoning, i believe, is that the people who feel that they're most a, you know, they're readily armed and n an equipped to detect bolshit when they hear it, are oftentimes the least competent. But until we start treating it as though it
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