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Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things
Skeptical Inquirer, Sept-Oct, 2007 by Kendrick Frazier
BLIND SPOTS: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things. Madeleine L. Van Hecke. Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 2007. 224 pp. Softcover, $18. A psychologist argues that much of what we label "stupidity" can be better explained as blind spots. She draws on research in creativity, cognitive psychology, critical thinking, child development, education, and philosophy to show how we (all of us, including the smartest people) create the very blind spots that become our worst liabilities.
She devotes a chapter to each of ten blind spots, among them: not stopping to think, my-side bias, jumping to conclusions, fuzzy evidence, and missing the big picture.
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