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by AndrewKemendo 1017 days ago
I love this so much

It’s such a great proof at how absolutely fundamentally tragically terrible humans are at evaluating things consistently based on purely sense perception.

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It's not a proof. It's one study. Which does back up your point in a way, given how often we tend to treat a single study as truth when it makes news.
It reinforces my priors that human knowledge is Bayesian (we don’t just take in knowledge, we are constantly comparing it to a prior and updating that prior, but we aren’t aware of our own biases which can take a huge precedence over new information).