Ben Carter
speaker
694 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
Ben Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Clever people get stupider when they let their opinions get in the way.
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When they're faced with a reasoning test, their judgement becomes impaired if they feel strongly about the subject.
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Of course.
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But what's new here is that the Yale team think they've actually measured this bias.
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Well, they asked people another question.
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This time it wasn't a neutral question about skin cream.
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It was a question about something that people really cared about, gun crime.
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The scenario the researchers outlined was this.
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A city government was trying to decide whether to pass a law banning private citizens from carrying concealed handguns in public.
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They were unsure whether the new law would decrease crime by reducing the number of people carrying handguns or increase crime by making it harder for law-abiding citizens to defend themselves.
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Exactly.
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So now they ask people to compare what happened with cities that brought in a gun ban and what happened in those cities where they didn't bring in the ban.
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What was really smart about what they did was that they used the same figures as in the skin cream test.
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Sometimes those figures suggested crime increased, but sometimes it actually implied it decreased.
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Here's Dan Kahn again.
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Well, yes, and this result is exactly what Dan Kahan had suspected people do.
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And Kahan thinks that's exactly what he's found evidence of.
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He calls it motivated numeracy.
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Well, some people looked at the data and said that it shows that the right wing are more biased.
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However, Dan Kahan says there's no evidence of that at all.
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