The Importance of Uncertainty

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Most of our conversations on a daily basis are based on truth, right? It's in deception. Even when the proportion is sort of 50-50 of lies and true statements, people tend to think that more of them are true,. maybe 65 or 70% or something like that. I think there's a lot of pressure these days, but social media sort of accelerates it.

In an era in which we have more information available to us than ever before, when claims of “fake news” might themselves be, in fact, fake news, Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, authors of The Invisible Gorilla, are back to offer us a vital tool to not only inoculate ourselves against getting infected by misinformation but prevent us from spreading it to others, a new book titled Nobody's Fool.

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