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Reasons Why Post-truth Claims Are Plausible, and Evidence That They Are Not true
Algorithms and the new (dis)information landscape: disaster afoot or unjustified epistemic panic?
Maarten van Doorn
Apr 30, 2021
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What I Can't Believe
The truth and the privileged
Maarten van Doorn
Aug 10, 2020
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Truth as a Power Game
Introducing the renewed blog
Maarten van Doorn
Aug 3, 2020
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Worse, but More Moral, So Better?
Law professor Ilya Somin, author of Democracy and Political Ignorance, says, “The sheer depth of most individual voters’ ignorance is shocking to many…
Maarten van Doorn
Aug 25, 2020
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The Stakes Are High, Don't Shun Contrarians!
Why enforced intellectual conformism hurts truth-finding
Maarten van Doorn
Sep 24, 2020
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What Makes Confirmation Bias Irrational?
Falsifiable Friday #13
Maarten van Doorn
Jan 14
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Contra Pariser On Filter Bubbels
A look at the empirical evidence on the effects of algorithmic personalization
Maarten van Doorn
Jul 1, 2021
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🧕almost everything is unconscious
Falsifiable Friday #3
Maarten van Doorn
Jul 23, 2021
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Who's afraid of Cambridge Analytica?
Cunning marketers can predict and manipulate our behaviour. Facebook knows your soul. Google is hacking your brain.
Maarten van Doorn
Jun 21, 2021
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🎯 new studies show that biases are overrated
Falsifiable Friday #2
Maarten van Doorn
Jul 16, 2021
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🙉facts don't change minds? Identity-protective cognition and belief polarization almost never happen, so they do
Falsifiable Friday #4
Maarten van Doorn
Jul 30, 2021
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Course announcement: Academic Mastery with Roam
I'm launching a knowledge management course on November 1st!!
Maarten van Doorn
Oct 25, 2021
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