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TED Talks: Season 2018

2018x327 Alex Edmans: What to trust in a "post-truth" world
TV-PG

  • 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 15m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
Only if you are truly open to the possibility of being wrong can you ever learn, says researcher Alex Edmans. In an insightful talk, he explores how confirmation bias — the tendency to only accept information that supports your personal beliefs — can lead you astray on social media, in politics and beyond, and offers three practical tools for finding evidence you can actually trust. (Hint: appoint someone to be the devil's advocate in your life.)
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