confirmation bias
One day in 1995, a large, heavy middle-aged man robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight. He didn’t wear a mask or any sort of disguise. And he smiled at […]
When it comes to climate change, gun control, and vaccinations, facts don’t change people’s minds—but there is one technique that might.
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The Washington Post created a Twitter account that automatically retweets all the tweets from the people whom President Donald Trump follows.
Your brain stops at the most comforting thought. The truth is somewhere beyond that. Using scientific skepticism as a guide, astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss outlines the questions that critical thinkers ask themselves.
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Is creativity a wild and free state of mind, or is it actually a pattern that others just can’t recognize?
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A key cognitive bias isn’t a bug, it’s just operator error (and easily correctable by using reason as nature intended).