Raising Superheros

Ep03 - Discussions of Critical Thinking with Rick Lewis

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Show Notes:

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Availability bias

  • “People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory.” (Kahneman 8)
  • Plane crashes, murders, and other unlikely events on the news.
    • Numerator vs denominator
    • Therefore, “A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.” (Kahneman 62)

      • Confirmation bias

      • ...looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with one’s existing beliefs.
      • If you believe someone or something is good/bad, you are likely to seek out (consciously or unconsciously) information that reinforces that belief

        •  Recommended Reading

        Thinking Fast & Slow

        Ego depletion

        The Rationality Project

        Muller-Lyer Illusion

        A More Beautiful Question

        Make Just One Change

        The Power of Habit


        Media Literacy

        • Fact-Checking (PBS)
        • The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
        • Fake News: How To Spot Misinformation (NPR)


          • Intro Music Credit: https://rebrand.ly/5tjjh6y-applemusic or   https://rebrand.ly/njn20ym-Spotify - Huge shout-out for this amazing music, do check his work out. I highly recommend it


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