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Effectiveness beats accuracy
“It is probably more important for survival that people have a stable internal model of the world than for that model to be strictly correct ,”
The Medium Newsletter • How being irrational helps us cooperate and survive
Confidence increases faster than accuracy. “The trouble with too much information,” Robinson told me, “is you can’t reason with it.” It only feeds confirmation bias. We ignore additional information that doesn’t agree with our assessment, and gain confidence from additional information that does.