The Psychology of Reason: How 90% of People Get It Wrong

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About 90% of people get it wrong. It doesn't matter the wording or incentives. Tends to be pretty standard, very high rate of error here. People can do something with the wording to make it easier or harder. But in general, people get itwrong. And not only do they get it wrong, but they get it Wrong in a particular way.

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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