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264 - Nobody's Fool - Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris

You Are Not So Smart

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The Importance of Truth Bias

CNN's John Sutter talks about the idea of truth bias. He says we tend to assume that any information coming in could possibly have a truth value, true or false. The brain automatically tags incoming information is true even if it's obviously false and he asks: Why would we have such a thing installed in our wetwear?

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