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Activity 2 4/19

Activity 2 4/19

1 The seven traits of conspiratorial thinking are contradictory, overriding suspicion, nefarious intent,something must be wrong, persecuted victim, immune to evidence,and re-interpreting randomness. Contradictory- this is when a conspiracy theorist believes in multiple ideas about the conspiracy. The examples used was believing the death of Princess Diana was murdered and also believing that she may have faked her own death. They contradict each other. Overriding suspicion- A conspiracy theorist will stop themself from believing something if they are suspicious it…

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Step 3

Step 3

In my eyes, I believe that the fallacy that Mat fell for was WYSIATI. He saw this person and immediately had a story in his own mind about him and about how he thought he was better, bigger, stronger. He was overconfident and whether he knew it or not, it put him in a bad position. In Kahnamen’s article, he points out that they “had made up a story from the little we knew but had now way to allow…

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