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Not Born Yesterday The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe

Hugo Mercier

Why people are not as gullible as we think Not Born Yesterday

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The Joe Rogan Experience

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The Joe Rogan Experience

Shermer highlighted Mercier's work as evidence that online echo chambers have little effect on actual voting behaviour.

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Hugo Mercier's book called Not Born Yesterday and he shows that those Facebook and online bubbles ... probably had next to no effect on the actual election.

— Episode: #1456 - Michael Shermer

Episode: #1456 - Michael Shermer

Shermer highlighted Mercier's work as evidence that online echo chambers have little effect on actual voting behaviour.

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Hugo Mercier's book called Not Born Yesterday and he shows that those Facebook and online bubbles ... probably had next to no effect on the actual election.

The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Gurri noted this work explores why people are rarely persuaded by oratory rhetoric, showing that belief systems are more resistant to manipulation than often thought.

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Third, Hugo Mercier. It's Not Born Yesterday. And it's about what we talk about right now is, can somebody like Donald Trump talk to you, a fairly liberal human being, and through the magic of his dis...

— Episode: A Theory of Media That Explains 15 Years...

Episode: A Theory of Media That Explains 15 Years of Politi...

Gurri noted this work explores why people are rarely persuaded by oratory rhetoric, showing that belief systems are more resistant to manipulation than often thought.

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Third, Hugo Mercier. It's Not Born Yesterday. And it's about what we talk about right now is, can somebody like Donald Trump talk to you, a fairly liberal human being, and through the magic of his disinformation, suddenly you walk away thinking, I will vote for that man? It shows people tend not to be persuaded by oratory rhetoric and tend to believe what they believe.

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