How We Know What Isn’t So — Why Smart People Believe False Things | Crisis in Perception
In this episode of Crisis in Perception, we explore How We Know What Isn’t So by psychologist Thomas Gilovich — a foundational work on why false beliefs persist even among intelligent, well-intentioned people.Rather than portraying human thinking as irrational, Gilovich shows how perfectly reasonable mental processes—pattern recognition, causal inference, reliance on experience, and social trust—often lead us to incorrect conclusions.This Deep Dive examines:Why humans see patterns in randomness (the “hot hand” fallacy)How confirmation bias and selective memory reinforce false beliefsThe role…
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