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Can you recognize bad thinking, manipulative advertising and tricky arguments when you see them?How about your kids - how will they know whether the memes they're seeing on social media are really true? Critical thinking is the most important skill you can have when you’re living in a world that seems to have lost its mind.Everyone out there is trying to tell you WHAT to think, I want to teach you HOW to think!In every episode, I’m exposing the logical fallacies & cognitive biases being used by...
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Episodes (371)
371. The Reactance Bias
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370. The Planning Fallacy Bias
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369. The Misinformation Effect
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368. The Illusory Truth Effect | Critical Thinking for Teens
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367. Cognitive Dissonance, Part 2: When your brain defends the wrong thing
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366. Cognitive Dissonance, Part 1: Why your brain hates being wrong
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365. How to Change Your Brain with Dr. W. Lee Warren
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364. Thinking in the Age of AI miniseries part 5: Use AI without becoming depend...
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363. Thinking in the Age of AI miniseries part 4: AI sounds like an expert but i...
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362. Thinking in the Age of AI miniseries part 3: AI Is Replacing Thinking and H...
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361. Thinking in the Age of AI miniseries, Part 2: The hidden risk of personaliz...
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360. Thinking in the Age of AI miniseries, Part 1: Why AI always agrees with you...
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359. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 16: “Do your own research…”
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358. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 15: “It’s not that complicated…”
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357. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 14: “There’s no evidence…”
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356. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 13: “I’m just asking questions…”
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355. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 12: “I have discernment…”
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354. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 11: “Our side is the critical thinkin...
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353. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 10: “This will Destroy Everything…”
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352. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 9: “If you support X, you support Y.”
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351: Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 8: “The Science is Settled…”
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350: Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 7: “The Bible clearly says…”
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349. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 6: “You need to educate yourself!”
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348. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 5: “They don’t want you to know…”
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347. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 4: “Most people don’t realize…”
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346. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 3: “Hot Take…”
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345. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 2: “You don’t care enough about…”
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344. Influencer Red Flags Miniseries, Part 1: “Why is nobody talking about…”
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343. The Pessimism Bias | Critical Thinking for Middle School
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342. The Moral Credential Effect Bias | Logic for Teens
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341. The Overconfidence Effect Bias | Critical Thinking for teens
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340. The Affect Heuristic | Critical Thinking for Middle & High School
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338. The Disposition Effect | Critical Thinking for Teens
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337. The Ostrich Effect Bias | Logic for Kids
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336. The Illusion of Transparency Bias | Critical Thinking for Teens
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335. The Attentional Bias | Logic for Middle and High School
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334. The Steelmanning Technique | Critical Thinking for Teens
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333. How do I start teaching critical thinking to my kids?
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339. The Projection Bias | Logic for Middle and High Schoolers
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332. The Hard-Easy Effect Bias | Cognitive Bias for Teens
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331. The IKEA Effect Bias | Logic for Teens
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330. The Hot Hand Fallacy Bias | Critical Thinking for Teens
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329: The Barnum Effect Bias | Critical Thinking for Middle and High Schoolers
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328. The Mere Exposure Effect Bias | Critical Thinking for Middle School
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327. The Just-World Hypothesis Bias | Biases for Students
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326. The Frog Pond Effect | Critical Thinking for Teens
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325. Can you name the fallacy and the bias in this real-life example?
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324. The Fading Affect Bias | Logic for Teens
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323. The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect | Biases for Teens
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322. The Authority Bias | Critical Thinking for Middle and High School
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