The Human Error Behind Fake News with David Rand
The Decision Corner
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How Much Do You Care About Your Preferences?
It's interesting that you mention accuracy as one of the portfolio of things hatwe're looking for in content. If we think about through a sort of attentional perspective, which therere two fundamentally different things that go into ih decision making. One could be what we'll call your preferences. Your preference would be, if you stopped and carefully thought about all those dimensions, how much would you value each one? At least, if you ask people that question, people overwhelmingly say that accuracy is the most important thing. Is as important, or more important than everything else.
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