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Don’t Get Fooled: How Con Artists Gain Your Trust | Chris Chabris

The Art of Charm

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The Importance of Positive Results

We have a habit of predicting what's going to come next, and if we get that, then we're okay with it. That's what scientific fraudsters often do, is they supply stuff that looks like exactly what we would expect. And where they sometimes run into trouble is that in creating data and results and graphs or the kind of things that you expect in scientific articles, it's not that easy to create real data. The world is noisier than we intuitively understand. There's a lot more randomness. We tend to smooth things out in our memories,. In the way we present things and make it a little bit too perfect.

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