Being Smart Doesn’t Mean You’re Right

Professor Stanovich has proven something I had just assumed – being smart doesn’t mean you’re right. Stanovich’s research is on rationality and reasoning and his last paper was about independence of cognitive ability and thinking biases. The takeaway I got: smart people are only slightly less likely to make bad decisions than the rest of us.

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