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Can you outsmart this logical fallacy? - Alex Gendler

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Meet Lucy. She was a math major in college, and aced all her courses in probability and statistics. Which do you think is more likely: that Lucy is a portrait artist, or that Lucy is a portrait artist who also plays poker? How do we know which statement is more likely to be true? Alex Gendler explores our tendency to look for shortcuts and the phenomenon known as the conjunction fallacy.

Which of the following does NOT explain why we’re prone to the conjunction fallacy?

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  • Educator Alex Gendler
  • Director Igor Coric
  • Narrator Addison Anderson
  • Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
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