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231 - On Being Certain - Robert Burton (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

Is the Information Deficit Model of Science Communication the Only Solution?

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We have no choice but to assume well than we are correct, even if our own handwriting is the source of the challenge. The only reason people don't believe the earth is flat is cause they don't have the fact oreearth is round. And the same thing with attitudes, like in political discourse, like the only reason you support that candidate is you don't have all the facts. I feel like if we can just agree, if we canjust a how the brain actually functions, as youare describing, then you can approach that sort of discourse in a way that will deliver some kind of result.

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