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Metaliteracy

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We Evolved to Win Arguments Not to Be Logical

Pietzsch, D. (2012) Don't believe everything you think. Retrieved from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pie4dan/7384349318

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We prefer stories overs statistics
We Seek to Confirm What We Know
We are Impressed by Coincidence Rather than Accept Chance
We Have too Much Faith in Our Sensory Perception
We Oversimplify
We Have Faulty Memories

Source: Kida, T. (2008). Don't believe everything you think: The 6 basic mistakes we make in thinking. Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books.

Correlation is not Causation

Source: The Simpsons - The Bear Patrol and Lisa's Tiger-Repelling Rock. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/fm2W0sq9ddU

Source: Dunning, D. (2017). Why incompetent people think they’re amazing. [TED-Ed.] Retrieved from: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-incompetent-people-think-they-re-amazing-david-dunning#review

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