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Why We Get Fooled

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Importance of Truth Bias

Most people do not tell grand joys lies like that. Most of the stuff they say is reasonably close to the truth. They're just accidentally telling us untrue things, or maybe exaggerating in a white lie sort of sort of sense. So it is much more efficient for us to accept what people are saying, at least initially, without further investigation.

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