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Six intuitions you should not trust
Even though you haven't taken the invisible gorilla test,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you've probably heard of it. It consists of a short video of two teams of scholars getting around when they pass basketballs. The idea is to count the number of passes made by one team while ignoring those produced by the other.
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This book is as simple as the psychologists who devised that experiment (see Gorilla psychologists: Weird stuff in plain sight). Their purpose is to show how easy it is to overlook stuff that are right in front people when we're not looking out for them, and just how illusions and distorted beliefs bring us astray every single day.
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and the increasingly popular notion that cognitive exercises make us smarter (actually, physical exercise has a much stronger effect).
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