“When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and public face of the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, told the New York Times in December. “Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.”
Day: January 5, 2021
The Zero-Sum Fallacy & Gambler’s Fallacy (18m) – Episode 053
Episode 053 looks at the Zero-Sum Fallacy and the Balancing Force of the Universe, or Gambler’s Fallacy, cognitive bias.