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Why we get conned and how to avoid it, with Daniel Simons, PhD, and Christopher Chabris, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
The Problem With Predictions and Expectations
How can we fall into the trap of not being willing to re-examine our own beliefs? It's especially easy to fool people when you tell them something that they want to believe anyway. I think the general public should be skeptical of specific scientific results if they detect signs like, well, this is based on a very small sample size and hasn't been replicated by independent researchers.
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