- What You See Is All There Is
- is a phenomenon that causes us to focus on existing evidence and ignore absent evidence
- will create a coherent story based on limited evidence
- these impressions/intuitions can be endorsed by
- they will become values and beliefs
- that’s why people jump to conclusions, assume bad intentions, are “victims” of biases and buy into conspirational theories
- Problems
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- people don’t really understand statistics
- they take small numbers and conclude that’s representative for the whole population
- if one personally observes “one” incident, he/she is more likely to think the same incident might apply to the whole population
- Racism
- Terrorism especially in combination with
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