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Sentence first, verdict afterwards

Think with Pinker

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We live in an era of fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theories. How can we make sense of making sense and its opposite? Today's episode is sentence first, verdict afterwards. It's about decision making under uncertainty. None of us is omniscient. We rely on evidence that might be a signal of something real in the world or it might be noise. A rational observer should take into account how reliable the evidence is. And use them to set an optimal cut-off for saying yes.

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