189. Daniel Kahneman — Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
The Michael Shermer Show
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We're on the Threat of the Moment
We're in a period, whether that whole system, where democracy is really being threatened. Because the essence of democracy is that the assumption that what unites us is more important than what separates us. This is not qualitatively different from a religious belief. You don't have faith in the academy of sciencethe enterprise of science. If you want to get a spacecraft to mars, you use science, a technology. You don't use astrology. And now you and i share the belief that our system, the scientific system, is a correct one. We are not, very clearly in the majority, not in this country, not a bet onit. Its the conspirater to
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