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009 - Arguing

You Are Not So Smart

Why Reasoning Doesn't Lead to Better Estimates of Correctness

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In your work, you say that reasoning doesn't necessarily lead to more accurate estimates of correctness or even superior moral judgments. So if that's true, what is from your perspective the purpose of reasoning? That's a very good point. So the, what we're saying is thatreasoning doesn't do that for the individual reasoner so that when people are trying to reason on their own, usually, or at least in many cases, it's going to have either no consequence because people will just find reasons for whatever they were thinking and not do anything more. Or in some cases, it can even lead to bad consequences. And I think then again that a lot of experimental and historical evidence

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