#048: Fallacies (Part 5): It’s Complicated! How to Avoid Oversimplification

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Recorded05 Apr 2022

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Simplification can be a handy way for us to make sense of something that may seem complex. But when oversimplification takes over, we may end up missing the truth about what’s really going on. In our everyday relationships it helps to be equipped with detection tools to help us avoid accepting explanations of outcomes that simply aren’t true. In this episode of “Asking For A Friend," TalkDoc along with Meredith and Teighlor, discuss types of oversimplification that we encounter in our everyday lives, like confusing correlation with causation. Then they lay out practical tools for detecting oversimplification and how to move past it to uncover what’s really going on. As you become familiar with how to spot different types of fallacies you’ll be better equipped to keep an open mind so that you can focus on evidence and ideas vs the false associations presented by oversimplification fallacies. Music by epidemic sound.

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