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The press is an availability machine whose anecdotes mislead us about what is common

Drawn from what Steven Pinker said

Subjectjournalism
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journalism How reporting is made and why to believe it: sourcing conventions, incentives, and reading across biased accounts.

What Steven Pinker actually said

  1. Steven Pinker Cognitive scientist and author at Harvard
    The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead.

    Where this was said

    ↗Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters (Penguin UK / Allen Lane, 2021 ebook)books.google.com

    c. 2021

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