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Motivated Numeracy and the Politics-ridden Brain

Motivated Numeracy and the Politics-ridden Brain

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

November 15, 20181h 5m

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Show Notes

If science were a candle in the dark, we’d need only spread its light to combat climate change denial and vaccine conspiracy theories. But what if the problem is more complex than that? What if a quirk of human cognition enables us to remain willingly in the dark, even as we hold the very candle? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick explore the concept of motivated numeracy. 

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