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55. What Changes Will Stick When the Pandemic Is Gone?

No Stupid Questions

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Do You Sustain Conspiracy Theories?

This tendency for human beings to come quickly to a judgment and then selectively attend to and interpret subsequent evidence that's favorable with that original judgment happens all the time. And i do think it feeds not only conspiracy theories, but political divides, et cetera. Is the following a case of confirmation bis or something different? Let's say you're in a pub with 99 other people. A hundred of you are watching an american football game, and 50 % are stealers ans and 50 percent are ravens fans. How can those two people truly see one event so differently? Well, we can pay attention to only a small part of the possible imputs to our sensory stimuli,. Like what

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