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The fallacy behind 'depressive realism'

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Naomi K
Aug 21, 2014
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Some friends and I were talking the other day (yesterday) about depressive realism, which is the demonstrably true fact that clinically depressed people have a better understanding of life's odds than non-depressed people. That's because human beings have a tough time with probability and we tend to consistently overestimate the probability of low-proba…

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