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Rationally Speaking #117 - Maria Konnikova on How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

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Holmes Quotes

Holmes quotes that I want to get wanted to get your take on but unlike Massimo I cannot cite their source so hopefully one of you will know so well. When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth bugs me because it's such a failure of probabilistic thinking. Conan Doyle ended his life a deep believer in spiritualism and he had this big blow to his career when he endorsed the Coddingly Fairies which supposedly were fairies spotted by two young girls  in England.

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