{"id":3723,"date":"2011-03-09T18:31:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T00:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/dont-believe-everything-you-think\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T18:31:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T00:31:36","slug":"dont-believe-everything-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/dont-believe-everything-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t believe everything you think.&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author Thomas Kida identifies &quot;the six-pack of problems&quot; that leads many of us unconsciously to accept false ideas: <\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 We prefer stories to statistics. <\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 We seek to confirm, not to question, our ideas. <\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 We rarely appreciate the role of chance and coincidence in shaping events. <\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 We sometimes misperceive the world around us. <\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 We tend to oversimplify our thinking. <\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Our memories are often inaccurate. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dont-Believe-Everything-You-Think\/dp\/1591024080\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dont-Believe-Everything-You-Think\/dp\/1591024080\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dont-Believe-Everything-You-Think\/dp\/1591024080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Thomas Kida identifies &quot;the six-pack of problems&quot; that leads many of us unconsciously to accept false ideas: \u00b7 We prefer stories to statistics. \u00b7 We seek to confirm, not to question, our ideas. \u00b7 We rarely appreciate the role of chance and coincidence in shaping events. \u00b7 We sometimes misperceive the world around us. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/dont-believe-everything-you-think\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t believe everything you think.&rdquo;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-updates","category-qotd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}