343. Timothy Redmond — Political Tribalism in America: How Hyper-Partisanship Dumbs Down Democracy and How to Fix It
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The Importance of Reasoning Rationally
There's bettiger's law which is any any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered no right. wine tasting if you don't know how much the bottle costs oh no i can't tell yeah exactlyYeah so um are we living in a post truth alternative facts uh fake news world well there's bett Tiger's law and pager makes his point in his book rationality, he says. Pager: We're it's really hard to reason rationally about these issues when even if you're trained to look out for all these cognitive biases there's still the bias bias that is you.
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