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What to trust in a "post-truth" world

Alex Edmans · TED

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Only if you are truly open to the possibility of being wrong can you ever learn, says researcher Alex Edmans. In an insightful talk, he explores how confirmation bias -- the tendency to only accept information that supports your personal beliefs -- can lead you astray on social media, in politics and beyond, and offers three practical tools for finding evidence you can actually trust. (Hint: appoint someone to be the devil's advocate in your life.)

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxLondonBusinessSchool
Speaker
Alex Edmans
Year
2017
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Psychology and the brain, Society and politics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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