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Is There a Unit Error in the Human Brain?

There's a famous class of problems called cognitive reflection problems. They're actually developed by behavior economist chain frederick. The most famous one is the bat and the ball question. So th a bat and a ball together cost a dollar ten. How much does the ball cost? And you just go, ye, ten, ten centsan instinctive answer. It's not the right answer. But with a lot of questions out on in the medio, on social media, we do have a sense of what the answer should be like. And that may mean we we double check, or we don't.

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