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How (Not) To Change Someone’s Mind
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ~John Kenneth Galbraith We live in a perpetual echo chamber. We follow the people we like and agree with on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. We read the news sites that…
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The Problem With An Over-Reliance On Data
“Last Saturday evening fans of Little Mix who had tuned in to BBC1 to watch the latest episode of their talent show, The Search, were instead treated to a contender for the worlds shittest PowerPoint presentation.” The problem with data and how we’ve conflated data with truth. This has dangerous implications for our ability to…
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How To Lose Trust During Complex Times
Why are we losing trust in leaders during the pandemic? The story has become about the data and nothing else. Great stories help us to persuade people to take action. Stories about data persuade people to argue about the data.
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Indifference Towards Truth: Rebuilding Trust In a Post Lockdown World
If ever there was a time for critical thinking to make a comeback it’s right about now. This post was written in week eight of the UK lockdown , 55 days in which we’ve generated more speculation, more opinion and more outright bullshit than at any other time in human history. (That statement , by…
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