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2017 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC TERM OR CONCEPT OUGHT TO BE MORE WIDELY KNOWN? [1]

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Brian Eno [5]
Artist; Composer; Recording Producer: U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon; Recording Artist
Confirmation Bias

The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway. 

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[3] https://www.edge.org/contributors/what-scientific-term-or%C2%A0concept-ought-to-be-more-widely-known
[4] https://www.edge.org/responses/what-scientific-term-or%C2%A0concept-ought-to-be-more-widely-known
[5] https://www.edge.org/memberbio/brian_eno