How do you if know something is true?

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Mr. Beat presents a guide to figuring out the truth, but is he telling the truth? How do you know he's telling the truth? Anyway, hopefully this video helps on your quest to find out about the truth. The truth is definitely underrated.

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Here's an annotated script with footnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ueLqX4MBUXsn3Jdah9qppErtvjEw1NPJae84rig_9Xg/edit?usp=sharing

Sources/additional reading:
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
3:15 How do you if know something is true?
4:38 Expert Consensus
9:42 Doing Your Own Research
14:38 Analyze the Sources
17:21 Ad (Ground News)
18:39 Analysis of ad
20:57 Logical Reasoning
24:20 Now we're ready to make a claim
24:39 Conclusion

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One of the best places to figure out the truth is a courtroom trial. I recently served on a jury, and I was amazed at how we worked together to attempt to critically think to find the truth with the limited evidence we had. In deliberations, we relied HEAVILY on corroboration since we mostly just had witness testimonies to go off of. We also heard testimony from experts who listed their credentials-experts who had different conclusions about the same evidence. Yeah my brain got a lot of exercise that week.

But even trials have lots of manipulation. Lawyers, in particular, are EXTREMELY skilled at manipulating juries.

Heck, even some witnesses are good at manipulating us. It can be tough in the courtroom not to let our emotions get in the way of only looking at the evidence. But hey, just as much as we are logical creatures, we’re also emotional creatures.

In fact, when it comes to emotional issues that tap into our values, beliefs, and identity, we often ditch logic and confirmation bias takes over. Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek out information that confirms or supports our prior values, beliefs or identity. In fact, when we encounter information that goes AGAINST our values, beliefs, or identity, it hurts. That pain we feel when this happens is called cognitive dissonance. Brain scans even show that the part of our brains that is activated during a physical threat is the same part activated when someone attacks our values, beliefs, or identity.

Finding out if something is true or not is a process. A constant process that will continue for the rest of your life. And it’s a painful process. Critical thinking actually kinda hurts, but, as with most things, the more we practice it the easier it gets. Heck, you may already be good at it, you just never realized it.

It’s best to think of knowledge existing on a spectrum. On one end of the spectrum is absolute certainty. On the other end is complete cluelessness. Almost all truth is in between.
We like to think something is true or false. But almost always it’s somewhere in between.