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LESSON 4 · Outsmart Your Own Biases

PAUSE TO THINK

How much of what you see is built by your brain rather than received by your eyes?

A surprising amount

Your eyes send the brain a limited, patchy stream of data, and the brain constructs a complete scene largely from what it expects to see. That is part of why confirmation bias runs so deep: perception itself leans on expectation.

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