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Why do people believe true things?
Ignorance and misperceptions are not puzzling. The challenge is to explain why some people see reality accurately.
Jul 28, 2024
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By celebrating "common sense" over expert authority, populism performs a dramatic status inversion. It gifts uneducated voters the power of knowledge…
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The evidence that social media broke America is surprisingly weak. So why are so many people convinced it did?
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