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263 - The Truth Wins - Tom Stafford (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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The Wason Selection Task: A Test of Human Reasoning

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.

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