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Rationally Speaking #117 - Maria Konnikova on How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

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The Confidence Game

We're just about out of time but very briefly before we wrap up I think I happen to know a little bit about the next book that you're working on. If you could give just like the nutshell teaser version so that they you know recognize it on the shelves when it comes out I think that'd be great sure. It's called the confidence game and it's about the psychology of the con or basically how people can be taken in and deceived even incredibly smart rational skeptical people by the right sorts of cons at the right moment. should basically just have you follow around like steel manning everything every trollish comment that he says  so those are the world notes you've not actually saying

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