123 - Active Information Avoidance (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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🗓️ 11 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Little did the champions of the Enlightenment kno…

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0:53.0	The cool thing is by happy.
0:55.0	They went quiet.
0:56.0	But then talking about the power of the dark people.
1:00.0	Everybody.
1:01.0	The cool we are by the happy.
1:02.0	They went quiet. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode 123. So I'm working on a new episode all about the latest research into fake news, how it is affecting us, how we consume it, what is fake news,
1:36.0	why are we panicking over it, is that panic justified.
1:39.3	So look for that episode really soon, a lot of experts are chiming in in that episode and as a sort of preamble to that episode
1:45.4	I thought we should return to a topic from last year about a psychological phenomenon that plays into our
1:51.1	receptivity to so-called fake news and that phenomenon that
1:54.0	phenomenon is called active information,
1:58.0	information, avoidance.
2:00.0	Yeah, so that the idea is really that because there's so much information out in the world,
2:07.0	you can't pay attention to all of it.
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