There are several ways to define pluralistic ignorance, and that’s because it’s kind of a brain twister when you try to put it into words. On certain issues, most people people believe that most people believe what, in truth, few people believe. Or put another way, it is the erroneous belief that the majority is acting in a way that matches its internal philosophies, and that you are one of a small number of people who feel differently, when in reality the majority agrees with you on the inside but is afraid to admit it outright or imply such through its behavior. Everyone in a group, at the same time, gets stuck following a norm that no one wants to follow, because everyone is carrying a shared, false belief about everyone else’s unshared true beliefs.
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Show Notes
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087 - Paranoia
086 - Change My View
085 - Misremembering - Julia Shaw (rebroadcast)
084 - Getting Gamers - Jamie Madigan
083 - Idiot Brain - Dean Burnett
082 - Crowds (rebroadcast)
081 - The Climate Paradox
080 - Deep Canvassing
079 - Separate Spheres
078 - The Existential Fallacy
077 - The Conjunction Fallacy
076 - The Genetic Fallacy
075 - Special Pleading / Moving the Goalposts
074 - Begging The Question
073 - Bayes' Theorem
072 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect (Rebroadcast)
071 - The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
070 - The No True Scotsman Fallacy
069 - The Black And White Fallacy
068 - The Strawman Fallacy
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