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How to be a data detective (Tim Harford)

Rationally Speaking Podcast

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Are You Observing Your Own Motivated Reasoning?

Julián: A lot of people just don't have the conscious experience of wanting something to be true or false, even though on some level that must be working in the background of their mind. I think if you can get yourself to stop being dumb, a me seems to be the project of a lifetime. But then there's an appetite to fix other people and i find it interesting that adam, which is ery good at explaining his own faults but has all this evidence based on wrong thinking. And he's very good at this. There's not much of people coming back and going,you know, i tried yor i tried your method and it works for me, or it

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