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#493 - David McRaney - Where Do Our Beliefs Come From?
Modern Wisdom
Biological Structures That Lead to Cognitive Mechanisms
We produce arguments in a very biased and lazy way, which is not the same as flawed and irrational. When faced with disagreement, or your trying to deliberate and come to consensus, that each individual would put forth a very biased argument. And then the other mechanisms work inside that pool, where you ever body evaluates things very carefully. The theyre in theis for the same reason that i was wrong about this for so long. Most of the studies that i a wrote about in blog posts were done on large groups,. but each person was being studied in isolation.
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