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Reasoning

Everything on this site about reasoning — each one naming the study behind it.

You accept illogical arguments if the conclusion feels true.
Belief bias is the tendency to judge the strength of an argument based on the believability of its conclusion rather t…
You judge how common a risk is by how easily you recall it.
The availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to mind when evaluating a …
You ignore the statistics to focus on the story.
People disregard general statistical information in favor of specific, anecdotal evidence.…