Friday, March 7, 2025

Wanna see a magic trick?

The human mind is like a kid who got a magic kit for Christmas: it only knows like four tricks. What looks like an infinite list of biases and heuristics is in fact just the same few sleights of hand done over and over again. Uncovering those tricks has been psychology’s greatest achievement. . .

Adam Mastroianni, Experimental History blog

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