Matthew Fisher on “Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge”

Update: 2016-01-27

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In today’s episode, I speak with Matthew Fisher about his article “Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge.” Matthew is a 5th year graduate student at Yale University, and his research interests include “how people make sense of a complex world with incomplete knowledge and the inherent tradeoffs of the strategies they use […]

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Matthew Fisher on “Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge”

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Matthew Fisher on “Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge”

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Matthew Fisher on “Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge”