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Dr Gad Saad: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense - Ask Dr. Drew - Episode 33

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The Fundamental Attribution Error

Postmodernists use a sleight of hand that comes from a basic principle in psychology, says Saad Sayah. If I don't understand what they're saying, it's clearly because I'm dumb, he says. But there's a cognitive psychological phenomenon where 85% of the time people will agree with them and believe it. "I can't tell you how many people have written to me after hearing me provide this explanation"

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