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Think Twice

Think with Pinker

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Is Critical Thinking Critical to Decision Making?

i think numerce is critical to critical thinking, if i can use the wor twice. People are just simply trying to find meaning and understanding in whatever information it is that they 're using. And so if you can increase people's perceived meaning, or even how much they think they're their understanding in the situation, you can actually get them to use the more tical data more often. We look at some of these applications ind the episodes to come,. They show that for all the conspiracy theories in fake news and para normal woowoo, many parts of the world have been getting more rational.

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