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CM 228: Woo-kyoung Ahn on Thinking Smarter

Curious Minds at Work

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How Does a 246 Task Work?

Peter Wason was a British psychologist in 1960s. He is the one who coined the term confirmation bias. The way he discovered this was what is known as a 246 task. To solve this problem, you need to try to disconfirm your hypothesis.

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