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Tag: post-truth

Posted on July 18, 2019July 18, 2019

Psychology & post-truth: Confirmation bias

Cognitive Miser Quiz

These are all questions that you have the information to answer. However, you will have a limited time to answer these. This is to illustrate how your brain works, not to test your knowledge. Do the best you can. Don’t answer “I don’t know.” Give it a guess.

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