Is There an E on One Side of a Card?

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Of these four cards, if there is an e on one side of a card, then there is a two on the other side. Turning over the k or the two will reveal nothing that's going to help you. Confirmation often tells you very little, and in the worst cases, it seems to solidify a lot of incorrect assumptions. If we're bad at simple logic, you can imagine how bad we might be at much more complex things.

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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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