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LESSON 3 · See Through Your Blind Spots

PAUSE TO THINK

Do people rate confident speakers as more knowledgeable, even when those speakers are wrong?

Yes

In study after study, listeners rate a confident speaker as more competent and trustworthy than a hesitant one, even when the confident speaker is plainly wrong and the cautious one is right. We are reacting to the tone, not checking the facts.

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