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Have you ever had an argument with someone and the person acts like there are two options and nothing in between is valid?

Well it turns out there's a thing called binary bias and it's your brain's way of setting up false dichotomies for you to choose between.

I feel like this bias basically explains the entire internet.

See, but whenever we talk about biases, it's always easy to talk about other people, but everyone does it.

So you do it, you do it I do it everybody if you ever

tempted to leave a one star or five star review somewhere and you can't even

consider leaving a two three or four star review this is an example of that totally it's either the best thing ever the worst thing ever

I remember this happening with the legend of Zelda breath of the wild which is like one of the best Zelda games ever made and I want a

Metacritic right after it came out and there's all these one star reviews and it's like I

didn't think this one thing so it's the worst game ever right it's like dude

what are you doing this game's genius, according to a new study in psychological science, binary bias distorts the way you form beliefs.

Here's an example from this study. Let's say you're reading through a list of the effects of a certain drug and the results you're

seeing don't all agree with each other.

Some test groups say the drug makes them hungry four times more often than usual, While others don't experience any change in

their hunger and others become hungry about half as often as usual. Now it's your

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