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		lotsofpulp on Oct 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your Money and Your Life (Edward Snowden) > One of the annoying things about humans is they are profoundly evidence based. I wish. Unfortunately, humans have insufficient time and energy to be able to be completely evidence based, so at best, humans have to evaluate based on heuristics and Bayesian statistics. And at that, I cannot help but feel we are quite lacking.

lborsato on Oct 10, 2021 [–]

Yes, sadly many humans are not evidence-based and simply believe what they are told without asking for actual evidence.

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