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The Truth is Out There
Season 1 · Episode 2

The Truth is Out There

An encounter between a conspiracy theorist—and a conspiracy theory debunker—elucidates a social science concept called “selection bias.”

Phenomena · Hai-Li Kong, Eliot Salandy Brown, David Zax

January 11, 202024m 44s

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Show Notes

How can we know we’re getting at the truth, when we inevitably come at the world with various biases? Eliot Salandy Brown and David Zax explore the phenomenon of “selection bias” by visiting with two people who hold very different views of the world: a conspiracy theory debunker, and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Can ReD help the debunker better understand the people whose minds he’s trying to change?

Topics

truthselection biaspollingconspiracysocial sciencesampling errorbiasconspiracy theory