The narrative fallacy, for example, is the ubiquitous tendency in humans to over-simplify things and create coherent—yet false—narratives. We take small sets of discrete facts and construct broad and elaborate stories. In the process, we connect the dots, or fill in the blanks, with fiction. It makes sense that this bias would exist: the world is far too large and complicated to fully process everything around us.
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