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“our brains have evolved to become highly adept at finding patterns but not at gathering comprehensive and scrupulously unbiased data. We are always ready to find the remarkable coincidence in the fortune cookie’s prediction and the events of our day, ignoring all the events to which it had no connection.”

David J. Helfand, A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind
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A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind by David J. Helfand
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