with ourselves. But what if accuracy is important and timeliness isn’t? Like in political or financial scenarios, or interpersonal dilemmas involving a bevy of emotional variables? This appears to be one of confirmation bias’s greatest threats—it offers the mind blanket permission to oversimplify arguments in an age when arguments are only getting thornier. This blunting of ideas intensifies us-vs.-them divisions in a social climate that demands we learn to tolerate the mental toll of cognitive dissonance, not hydraulic-press it into oblivion, if we don’t want our mental levees to break and
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