The Wason selection task was invented by Peter Wason, a British psychologist. It's like a card game, and each card has a letter on one side and number on the otherside. The challenge is to determine which cards do you need to turn over if the rule is true or false? Only 10% of people pick the right cards.
Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments back and forth, most of the places where we currently gather make it much easier to produce arguments in isolation rather than evaluate them together in groups. The latest research suggests we will need much more of the latter if we hope to create a new, modern, functioning marketplace of ideas. In this episode, psychologist Tom Stafford takes us through his research into how to do just that.
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