“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)
...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
A More Beautiful Question
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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