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1. www.nytimes.com › 2018/08/21 › magazineHow Do You Explain the ‘Obvious?’ - The New York Times

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   Aug 21, 2018 · The obvious cuts through nonsense. It asks why we have hundreds of pages of tax law instead of one; it insists on straightforward fixes for immigration policy.

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2. www.ethicalpsychology.com › 2019 › 01Ethics and Psychology: The fallacy of obviousness

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   Jan 21, 2019 · Obviousness is not self-evident. Or as Sherlock Holmes said: ‘There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.’. This isn’t an argument against facts or for ‘alternative facts’, or anything of the sort. It’s an argument about what qualifies as obvious, why and how.

3. www.ethicalpsychology.com › 2017 › 03Ethics and Psychology: Why We Believe Obvious Untruths

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   Mar 3, 2017 · 'How can so many people believe things that are demonstrably false? The question has taken on new urgency as the Trump administration propagates falsehoods about voter fraud, climate change and crime statistics that large swaths of the population have bought into. But collective delusion is not new, nor is it the sole province of the political ...

4. www.nytimes.com › 2017/03/03 › opinionOpinion | Why We Believe Obvious Untruths - The New York Times

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   Mar 3, 2017 · Marion Fayolle. How can so many people believe things that are demonstrably false? The question has taken on new urgency as the Trump administration propagates falsehoods about voter...

5. www.psychologicalscience.org › news › why-we-believeWhy We Believe Obvious Untruths – Association for ...

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   Mar 15, 2017 · How can so many people believe things that are demonstrably false? The question has taken on new urgency as the Trump administration propagates falsehoods about voter fraud, climate change and crime statistics that large swaths of the population have bought into.

6. www.psychologytoday.com › au › blogIs It Fiction or Science? Why the Difference Is Not Obvious

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   Dec 7, 2023 · Key points. Nonobvious hypotheses in psychology are often more attention-grabbing than obvious ones. Some nonobvious hypotheses have been foreshadowed in fiction. Nonobvious hypotheses are not...

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   Why is “obvious” taken as false?

   • What is “obvious” is taken as false because it’s too obvious. This is because the obvious is, essentially, a shortcut: It appeals to a set of values we’d formed some consensus around, a set of ideas we once agreed no serious person would question.

   How Do You Explain the 'Obvious?' - The New York Times

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   Why do people fail to distinguish what they know from others?

   • People fail to distinguish what they know from what others know because it is often impossible to draw sharp boundaries between what knowledge resides in our heads and what resides elsewhere. This is especially true of divisive political issues. Your mind cannot master and retain sufficiently detailed knowledge about many of them.

   Why We Believe Obvious Untruths - The New York Times

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   What does “I thought it would be obvious” mean?

   • “I thought it would be obvious.”) The obvious is a common tool in political arguments; there is something about calling on voters’ “common sense” that makes the opposition look like sophists and weasels, waffling and equivocating. The obvious cuts through nonsense.

   How Do You Explain the 'Obvious?' - The New York Times

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   What does it mean to call something “obvious” or “common sense”?

   • To call something “obvious” or “common sense” is to call it settled and refuse to relitigate it or revisit all the work that went into determining it was so inarguable in the first place. In a recent book, “At War With the Obvious,” the psychoanalyst Donald Moss writes that “the obvious is adaptive. It mutates under pressure, like cells.”

   How Do You Explain the 'Obvious?' - The New York Times

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8. www.psychologytoday.com › why-we-miss-the-obviousWhy We Miss the Obvious - Psychology Today

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   Jun 22, 2021 · Posted June 22, 2021|Reviewed by Gary Drevitch. Key points. Studies have shown that we often fail to perceive things that are “right before our eyes,” a sort of misinformation by omission. The...