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234 - The Truth Wins - Tom Stafford

You Are Not So Smart

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Is It Possible to Simplify Reasoning?

There's a kind of evolutionary psychology school for but we've got kind of were we're exceptionally sensitive to rule breaking and social rule breaking. We have, many people you speak to are not convinced by that, and think it's more to do with familiarity or al kind of kind of concreteness. I haven't managed to get to the bottom of this. The minimum it says to me is the em like in these other tasks, were very bad abstract reasoning a but that can be supported if you give people the right scaffolding. And so you you ca scaffold people's reasoning. But theres obviously a when things get abstract, our reasoning, they is often untat.

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