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RweSure ago

Yes, but here's the deal. Our brains have several flaws. These are well known to cognitive scientists and a lot of work has been done on them in recent years.

Our brains LOVE stories. Communicating via a story has probable helped us survive over and over again in our evolution. We can take random things and make them a story. Our brains also love patterns. Finding links, patterns and connections, make our brains happy. Literally. Ever play tetris? Or Candy Crush? Our brains love that stuff because matching patterns releases a tiny bit of dopamine in our brains. We literally get happy chemicals when it happens. How many times on here have you seen people go down the rabbit hole and post link after link after link......until they are talking in details about folks who have no connection to the original person. I know exactly what these feels like it because I have done this too. Our brains like investigating. Links and Patterns make us happy.

So when you are conducting an investigation and your goal is find the truth, you have to guard against believing your own stories because you don't have all the information. We tend to fill in the blanks and believe the story we are telling ourselves. There was a really interesting post on here, that got deleted. It was a woman who claimed to be part of a federal agency who thought FBIanon was a fraud. She had this to say about investigative techniques and it rings true to me

.....the investigative techniques are flawed. Perhaps it would lead you to tighten up those gaps--you have to shit test, shit test, shit test your hunches and direction. Otherwise you find yourself in scenario lock, headed permanently in the wrong direction. Dismissing that critical voice as shillery--pun intended--is the very opposite of investigation.

Cognitive Glitches are really interesting to read about. We ALL are a lot less rational than we think we are.

A few I find interesting are Hindsight Bias (also the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy) The Availability Heuristic Confirmation Bias