
#76-How mathematics can improve our lives and make us better critical thinkers-with guest John Allen Paulos
Thinking Clearly
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Is Brandy-Lene's Law Really Effective?
In your book, partisanship in politics, you discuss brandy-lene's law. Mark Twain said it was easier to con people than convince them they had been conned. It takes much more work to kind of go and disabuse them if every sentence is nonsense," she says. "Even if you do succeed in debunking it, it may take whatever"
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