Why do people unquestioningly retweet and “like” something like this? How do you know it’s even remotely true? A picture with no source? nitter.vloup.ch/alexsavinme/stat…

Dec 27, 2017 · 11:45 AM UTC

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Wishful understanding
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Daniel Kahneman would explain this with the great wish for a coherent story. "System 1" likes plausibility and reacts positively – without activating "system 2" which could question the story but is just to lazy to care.
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Buuuuut, it sounds so nice and like a thing a giant like Amazon would do :-)
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Nice to read someone was trying to find the source: nitter.vloup.ch/jamescridland/st… But technologyreview.com/s/53860… only states that boxes are selected by computers based on the products sizes. „And the people are such an important component;“ #PeopleAsComponent
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this is how many belief systems work :P
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*puts on tinfoil hat* they've be conditioned to not have any critical thinking skills by the ruling elite.
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This is actually a quote from an (here) uncredited @reddit user whose comment made it to /r/bestof earlier. The user gave technologyreview.com/s/53860… as source though i can’t find proof for the Tetris theory in there.