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Bad Ideas Can Get Surprisingly Far
The worst thing you can do is ignore the bad news while searching for some tiny grain of validation to celebrate.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
McGuire found that people’s beliefs worked in a similar way: being repeatedly exposed to weak arguments for a particular position makes people dismissive of all arguments for that position.
Tim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
The term “cognitive biases” is arguably misleading in that it suggests that believing truth would be a kind of default. Arguably, it’s amazing that we manage to believe the truth at all. If you want your beliefs to be accurate, you’re constantly swimming against your own biology and instincts.Broadly speaking, I think we can identify three reasons ... See more
dynomight • Effectiveness beats accuracy
confirmation bias is often the difference between sounding smart and being right. And sometimes something much, much worse.