You Are Not So Smart Podcast

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Tom stafford: Like germs, misinformation was always out there. The truth has always been hard to come by. He says we're all going through this cultural change. We need to learn to do the informational equivalent of washing our hands. And that's how you are not so smart works.

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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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