Neatorama » logic http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:58:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 5 Ways 'Common Sense' Lies To You Everyday http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/16/5-ways-common-sense-lies-to-you-everyday/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/16/5-ways-common-sense-lies-to-you-everyday/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:07:14 +0000 Miss Cellania http://www.neatorama.com/?p=23370 The human brain is quite susceptible to logical fallacies that can mess up our lives and our societies. One of them is probability.

Our brains are stupid when it comes to calculating probability. As a result, we all have this fuzzy idea that if something can happen, it probably will. And we think this, while having no idea what “probably” even means.

This is why millions of high school kids think they’re going play pro sports when they grow up, even though there are only enough available jobs for a tiny fraction of them. When the news says an asteroid may hit the Earth in the next 10 million years, people will watch the skies suddenly sure that an asteroid will hit that day.

Read about all five fallacies at Cracked. Link

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