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662: Daniel J. Levitin | How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Critical Thinking Is Hard
We'd avesarly evolved the tools to try to think critically at high speed about everything that's coming at us and requires a quick decision. The problem is that critical thinking is hard. And recognizing our failings can help us to avoid the pitfalls you mentioned skew data. One of my favorite examples of this is the finding that was published after my book came out. Studies show that the number of books read by american school hildren falls every year after second grade. Number of books is not the relevant metric if you want to figure out how scholarly students are.
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