May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do about It
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May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do about It
When we argue about why, we run the risk of becoming emotionally attached to our positions and dismissive of the other side’s. We’re more likely to have a good fight if we argue about how. When social scientists asked people why they favor particular policies on taxes,40
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driven. Rarely do we sift through all the available information to ensure we know every fact. And we don’t need to. It is all about degrees of certainty. “I can make a decision with 30 percent of the information,” said former secretary of state Colin Powell. “Anything more than 80 percent is too much.” There is always a level at which we trust ours
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