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Improbably Right
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Dots Will Be Connected
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Reality is just a game now
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Learning to Love Myself
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I disagree with Turing and Kahneman regarding statistical evidence (2014)
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The meta-positioning habit of mind
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My Favorite Liar (2008)
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Everyone gets numbers wrong, even the New York Times
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A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe
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Do success stories cause false beliefs about success?
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Empty and Misleading Communication Takes over Organizations (2020)
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Facts don’t change our minds (2018)
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Types of propaganda, propaganda techniques, and propaganda strategies (2017)
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Why psychology isn’t science (2012)
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Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter
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In Defense of Myers Briggs (2020)
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What happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes
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Nassim Taleb vs. Nate Silver: who is right about election forecasting?
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Competition and Quarter-Life Crises
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A Few Rules
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A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe
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Who to ignore – bullshit filters
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Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (2012)
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Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence
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Books on Critical Thinking
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You can fool some of the people, all of the time
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Consumers Are Becoming Wise to Your Nudge
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“Default Position Should Be Skepticism” and other advice for data journalists
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Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? [pdf]
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'Calling bullshit': the college class on how not to be duped by the news
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Simpson’s Paradox (2016)
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Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
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Bullshit asymmetry principle
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The foot soldiers behind psychology’s replication crisis
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Yuval Noah Harari extract: ‘Humans are a post-truth species’
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How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation
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People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
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If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is?
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research
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Humans are Liars
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Everybody lies: how Google search reveals our darkest secrets
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How to Call B.S. On Big Data: A Practical Guide
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How to Call B.S. On Big Data: A Practical Guide
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Paradoxes of probability and other statistical strangeness
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List of falsehoods programmers believe in
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Free Barrett Brown donors sue DOJ, FBI for right to give anonymously
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A glitch in the human psyche that equates repetition with truth
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Calling bullshit
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To influence people don't try to persuade them, use ‘pre-suasion’ instead
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Trump
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Hidden tricks of persuasion: study shows how easily we are manipulated
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How con artists trick your mind
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Show HN: Use email subject lines to save personal stats and chart them
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Social Psychology Is A Flamethrower
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The Trap You Set For Yourself
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How to make fake data look meaningful
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Nate Silver confuses cause and effect, ends up defending corruption
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Why political journalists can’t stand Nate Silver
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The Curse of Bullshit
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A simple experiment suggests a way to encourage truthfulness
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Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People
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The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever
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Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias
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Sid Meier's Rules
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All we want are the facts, ma'am.
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Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself
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The End of My Childhood
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Business advice plagued by survivor bias (2009)
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Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)
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Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself
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