- Humans sometimes use heuristics to balance out disproportional causes and effects. If the effects are large, but the cause seems small, we ascribe more value to the cause by creating a conspiracy. https://cognitiontoday.com/why-we-justify-big-events-with-big-causes-proportionality-bias/ 157 comments philosophy
- We tend to think big events are a result of big causes. This is rarely true. Big events can have small causes but our mind takes a shortcut to balance-out the size of the cause with the size of the effect. Adding a conspiracy or bad intentions to a cause is one way we do this. https://cognitiontoday.com/why-we-justify-big-events-with-big-causes-proportionality-bias/ 4 comments philosophy
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