Putting Our Assumptions to the Test

Hidden Brain - A podcast by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam - Mondays

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Do you ever stop to wonder if the way you see the world is how the world really is? Economist Abhijit Banerjee has spent a lifetime asking himself this question. His answer: Our world views often don't reflect reality. The only way to get more accurate is to think like a scientist — even when you're not looking through a microscope.