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Cognitive Bias
More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
John Templeton Foundation
ChatGPT doesn’t understand physics, but it memorizes very well and puts in extra effort.
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Why we keep giving power to the wrong people, according to political scientist and associate professor Brian Klaas.
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Washington University professor John Inazu tells us how we can make peace inside a raging culture war.
Kids are fragile. They should trust their feelings. The world is a battle between good and evil. We should stop repeating these untruths.
The best-laid plans of mice and everyone else.
Humans tend to hunker down in our own minds and trust what we already believe to be true. This emotion-based way of thought isn't often the best way to think about anything, and often leads to gridlock.
John Templeton Foundation
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How to see through the lies that surround us.
It is all too easy for humans to fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient or intelligent.
It is little more than a fancy excuse for escapist fantasizing.
If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.
We know sleep is more important than aimlessly scrolling on social media or checking our email for the 50th time. So, why do we do it?
The base rate fallacy may help to explain low reproducibility in various fields of science.
The placebo effect is not the "power of positive thinking." The fact that it is getting stronger is not a good development.
Metal really does sometimes stick to some people’s skin. Here’s the science of why. Every once in a while, a claim comes along that wildly challenges the mainstream scientific narrative. These […]