Are You a Compatiblist Determinist?

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Early studies show that most african americans do not support critical ra theory being taught in public schools. It seems to be driven by academics and intellectuals a who, you know, have fingered that as the cause. I mean, one thing we din't get on to at all is my discovery of the with tim wilson, of how easy it is to have people do things. You make them do things, and you then ask them why they did that, and what you get is confabulation. That's night school metaphysics. Stay away from that. Ah, yes, yes. Well, i'm just kind of free associating there. So, richard, let

In this wide-ranging conversation Shermer and Nisbett discuss Nisbett’s research showing how people reason, how people should reason, why errors in reasoning occur, how much you can improve reasoning, what kinds of problems are best solved by the conscious mind and what kinds by the unconscious mind, and how we should think about intelligence, along with the controversies over group differences and genetic influences on I.Q. scores and why Charles Murray (The Bell Curve) is wrong in inferring genetic causes for group differences in I.Q.. Nisbett also shows that self-knowledge can be dramatically off-kilter and points to ways to improve it, and demonstrates how different cultures have radically different ways of reasoning and feeling, and how this led to his most famous research showing the difference between Northerners and Southerners in rates of violence, the culture of honor, and a hair-trigger for slights and insults. The two also discuss the #metoo, BLM, antiracism, and woke movements today in context of his psychological research.