The following is a guest post from Prof Dan Kahan in response to a previous post here, on Margaret Heffernan’s book, Willful Blindness. 4culture’s insightful post put me in mind of something important that in fact he has said explicitly before: Understanding the contribution that cultural influences have on our perceptions of risk (and like facts) cannot only explain … Continue reading Moving beyond a failure in the marketplace of ideas
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Guest post coming up
Dan, Thanks for your interesting message. I'd certainly like to make a 'guest post' of it. It fits very well with the next piece coming up here on the London riots - but of course you say things that hadn't even occurred to me. For example the whole idea of a market place of ideas … Continue reading Guest post coming up
Bias, learning to walk at the edge of Chaos
This is a guest post by Meika, for which, many thanks. Cambridge-based researchers recently published a study providing experimental data which supports the idea that the human brain lives "on the edge of chaos". Its press release ends: According to [co-author] Kitzbichler, this new evidence is only a starting point. "A natural next question we plan … Continue reading Bias, learning to walk at the edge of Chaos
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