See how people weigh evidence, expertise, and motives before trusting a claim, and why rejecting useful information can be as consequential as accepting a dubious one.
17 parts, about 33 minutes to read.
Mercier treats relevant past performance as a cue to expertise; Harford adds a process of recording clearly defined probability forecasts and checking outcomes, making confident experts easier to evaluate than by reputation alone.
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