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LESSON 4 · Spot the Logical Trap

PAUSE TO THINK

Why does one named child raise more money than a million dying ones?

The identifiable victim effect

One child with a name and a face moves people far more than a statistic about millions. As a chilling line often attributed to Stalin puts it: one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.

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