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Why Rationality Matters: With Steven Pinker

The Michael Steele Podcast

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Is That What's Driving a Lot of This Right Now?

People make math errors when they're asked to, and smart people who are good at math will makeMath errors if you give them data that supports the position they don't believe in. So what does that tell you? What do you do? One does the math, they just go directly to the conclusion. Is this sort of tribalism that forces us, you know,smart people to be dumb and dumb people to be well, just a little bit right sometimes?" "I think that's I think that's an awful lot of it," he said.

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