Our Inability To Think Rationally
September 27th, 2007 | by Max Kalehoff | published in Uncategorized | Email This Entry
A recent episode of NPR’s On the Media posited a dour explanation of how people process messages, rooted in truth, myth or lies. In an interview with Bob Garfield, Shankar Vedantam, columnist at the Washington Post, explained:
The mind relies on a number of rules of thumb, and one of the rules of thumb that it [...]
