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Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

Steven Pinker

Canadian Scientist

Born: Sep 18, 1954

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Memory, Mind, Systematic, Statistics, Reliance, Tells, Anecdotes, Vivid, Rather, Because, Vulnerable, Than, Human, Psychology, Us, Human Mind, Many, Illusions, Cognitive

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