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  • 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
      • 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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