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**JOR4qxYH** · 10-21-2010, 07:23 PM

You are also 1000 times more likely to die in a car crash than in an airplane crash, but nevertheless some silly people continue to be afraid to fly!

What is the point? Human emotions are not based on numbers and logic alone. Never have been and never will be.

But shouldn't one of our goals be to recognize our many cognitive biases and thus try to be more rational? That's what Spock taught me anyway...

10-21-2010, 07:23 PM	#10
JOR4qxYH Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 520 Senior Member	You are also 1000 times more likely to die in a car crash than in an airplane crash, but nevertheless some silly people continue to be afraid to fly! What is the point? Human emotions are not based on numbers and logic alone. Never have been and never will be. But shouldn't one of our goals be to recognize our many cognitive biases and thus try to be more rational? That's what Spock taught me anyway...
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