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How to be a data detective (Tim Harford)

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Research suggests that we don't even bother to try to val whether it's true. We're in a different mode of thinking, he says. You could spot the truth, and you're perfectly willing to search for the truth, i just never even occurs to you to try. The first reason is ecause you're not smart enough. And so the second reason that you might get stuff wrong is because of motivated reasoning. But then the third reason, this is the penny cook and rand idea, is a actually, you could spot the truth,. He concludes by saying: "This stuff is not as complicated as it often seems"

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