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#548 - Tim Harford - Why Is Thinking Clearly So Difficult?

Modern Wisdom

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The Toxic Cynicism of Social Media

I think there are three different things happening and we pay different amounts of attention to them. The most logical is like, oh, we get stuff wrong because we don't know enough. We also make these meta mistakes where we convince ourselves that actually, this stuff doesn't really apply to us. And then the third thing I think we often miss, which is just not really paying attention.

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