The idea of irrationality smuggles in a standard of rationality. So whether we're irrational and how irrational we were pitier depends on what we preconceived rationality to be. Tom Stafford has recently conducted some research into human reasoning that calls into question some of our previous assumptions. He did that using the Wason selection task.
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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