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Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West on Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
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Are We Evolutionarily Vulnerable to a Lot of This Kind of Thinking?
We're very, very good at talking ourselves into believing things that we want to believe. We can cherry pick the studies that support the stories we had in the first place and convince ourselves that we've been right all along. Those biases may be kind of dangerous ones to have. Then you get these ideas around sort of tribal signaling, tribal identity. I don't care whether the thing that I'm trying to tell you about the world is true or not. That's irrelevant to the message that I'm actually trying to send. But the problem is that message on the social media system takes off and has this life of its own.
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