We know that people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. — Daniel Kahneman, psychologist and economist
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In Your Own Words…
In your own words, what is the main idea of the quote above by the psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman?
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” (Albert Einstein)
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Getting Personal
Can you think of an example of a widely held belief that you think is, in fact, absurd?
How can an individual defend himself or herself from the increasing prevalence of biased information in today’s mass media?
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INSIGHTS for SUCCESS
“When fake news is repeated, it becomes difficult for the public to discern what’s real.” (Jimmy Gomez)
“The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.” (Samuel Johnson)
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