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Stephen Dubner:

“Easy question first: How do you get someone to change their mind?”

Steven Sloman:

“Well, first of all, there’s no silver bullet. It’s really hard.

But if you’re going to try, the first thing you should do is try to get them to change their own minds.

And you do that by simply asking them to assume your perspective and explain why you might be right.

If you can get people to step outside themselves and think about the issue — not even necessarily from your perspective, but from an objective perspective, from one that is detached from their own interests — people learn a lot.

So, given how hard it is for people to assume other people’s perspectives, you can see why I started my answer by saying it’s very hard.”

Stephen Dubner:

“One experiment Sloman has done is asking people to explain — not reason, as he pointed out, but to actually explain, at the nuts-and-bolts level — how something works.”

Steven Sloman:

“People don’t really like to engage in the kind of mechanistic analysis required for a causal explanation. (…)

And then they said, “Okay, how does it work? Explain in as much detail as you can how it works.”

And people struggled and struggled and realized they couldn’t.

And so when they were again asked how well they understood, their judgments tended to be lower.

In other words, people themselves admitted that they had been living in this illusion, that they understood how these things worked, when, in fact, they don’t.

We think the source of the illusion is that people fail to distinguish what they know from what others know.

We’re constantly depending on other people, and the actual processing that goes on is distributed among people in our community.

It’s as if the sense of understanding is contagious. When other people understand, you feel like you understand. (…)

I see the mind as something that’s shared with other people. I think the mind is actually something that exists within a community and not within a skull.

And so, when you’re changing your mind you’re doing one of two things: you’re either dissociating yourself from your community — and that’s really hard and not necessarily good for you — or you have to change the mind of the entire community.

And is that important? Well, the closer we are to truth, the more likely we are to succeed as individuals, as a species. But it’s hard.”

Source: Freakonomics Radio: 379. How to Change Your Mind

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Hege V, “My Decline” (1987)

Writer Stephen Dubner, now of Freakonomics fame, then a member of The Right Profile, is credited with playing accordion on House of Tears, but feels like he was very, well, economical with his contributions as I strain to catch them...

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Stephen Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio, has done more than change the way we think about economics — I consider him a spiritual guide of our time. But for all his success, he’s got a laundry list of careers he’s left behind, from rising-star musician to New York Times writer. We debate the merits of expecting the worst versus hoping for the best and discuss how to trade nuance for novelty as we get older. It’s never too late to keep learning — or, according to him, to start a podcast.

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Freakonomics podcast with Andrew Yang.

The only thing I know for sure is that this country will not remain this country if we have 4 more years of Gospodin Trump. I would vote for a decaying slug over him.

Having said that I am having trouble getting excited about any of the Democratic candidates left in the field. Bidden who seems to be nice guy, also seems to tied to all the old bullshit. Last election cycle I was a Bernie…

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Freakonomics podcast with Andrew Yang.

The only thing I know for sure is that this country will not remain this country if we have 4 more years of Gospodin Trump. I would vote for a decaying slug over him.

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La morale, dit-on reflète la façon dont nous voudrions voir tourner le monde alors que l'économie représente son fonctionnement réel.

Freakonomics, Steven D.Levitt et Stephen J.Dubner

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Some people want to build a house in the country to look at a beautiful meadow or a waterfall -- I love coming home and seeing this whole wall of bookshelves.

Stephen Dubner on his podcast Question of the Day [ep.2].

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