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Think with Pinker
The Delinear Instinct
Our brains usually like to look at things in linear ways. We tend to make ticotomies and put things on two ends of a scale, and we forget about everything in the middle. The unbalanced information diet that also feeds the availability bias. What happens when you're confronted with a choice around an act of terrorism? And i suppose i remain on clear what you would do if you were the editor of the new york times and there is a brutal and murderous terrorist attack in a city. Take, for example, christchurch. Where in your mind does that run in the newspaper? What prominence do you give it, and how do you cover it differently from the way in which
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