Pulling The Thread

The Illusion of Understanding (1x5)

Data emisji: Kwi 01, 2020

Not long ago, we had a few news sources: newspaper in the morning, Walter Cronkite in the evening...today, anyone can be a “journalist.” This has problematized a common mental foible known as the illusion of understanding: we tend to think we know a lot more about most things than we really do. With the decline of media gatekeepers, how can we separate experts from amateurs and fact from fiction?