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Don’t confuse the facts with the truth

We should be careful not to take our interpretation of the facts as the objective, unequivocal truth.

A good 20 years ago, Frédéric Brochet, then a PhD student oenology (the study of wine), was cataloguing the descriptors wine tasters use for his dissertation. He ran an experiment with 54 undergraduate students at Bordeaux (where…