Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedTim Harford: belief
12 Feb 2020 Conversations with Tyler Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics
“Although I wasn’t very conscious of it, to observe how the Daily Mail and the Guardian and the Telegraph and the Times and the Sun — these classic British newspapers — might all report the exact same event, and to see how different their takes were, I think is a useful education.”
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- 12 Feb 2020
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…Made out of paper, our greatest innovation. — which was an education. It’s nice because it gets you out, and you walk around because one could still do this. You didn’t need a bike or a car. You could walk around. There was enough density to do that. But it gave you a sense of what the different newspapers were saying. Although I wasn’t very conscious of it, to observe how the Daily Mail and the Guardian and the Telegraph and the Times and the Sun — these classic British newspapers — might all report the exact same event, and to see how different their takes were, I think is a useful education. What did you do in your job at Shell?…
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