#548 - Tim Harford - Why Is Thinking Clearly So Difficult?
Modern Wisdom
Is Indiscriminate Doubt as Dangerous as Indifference?
I found that people were falling into a trap when it came to anything involving statistics. There was a reflexive skepticism, or like lies down lies and statistics. But if you're basically just rejecting everything on the grounds that it's got statistics in, well, that's not smart either. The challenge is to be discriminating in what you doubt and what you believe.
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