The Understanding Project

Reasons Why Post-truth Claims Are Plausible, and Evidence That They Are Not true

What Makes Confirmation Bias Irrational?

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Who's afraid of Cambridge Analytica?

🧕almost everything is unconscious

🎯 new studies show that biases are overrated

🙉facts don't change minds? Identity-protective cognition and belief polarization almost never happen, so they do

No one ever shows us how to learn

Truth has limited reach

Course announcement: Academic Mastery with Roam

The Rational Question