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Crumbling institutions, culture wars, and the dismissal economy (with Ashley Hodgson)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Right Salience

The right salience has to do both with what your goal is, and with the sort of base factor of that evidence. If you're a bridge builder, then clearly making safe bridges should be more salient to you because that's connected to your goal. And then the second piece, the strength of the evidence, I don't know how familiar you are with Bayesian thinking and Bayes' rule. The greater the Bayes factor on a piece of evidence, the more salient we should give it all else equal.

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