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Always obey your satnav? Then you can vote rationally on the EU

Human intuition is tuned to get questions vaguely right rather than precisely wrong. Ignoring it is a mistake

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

In many ways a satnav is a miraculous device. A network of US military satellites more than 10,000 miles above the surface of the Earth, each broadcasting a signal with little more power than a 100-watt light bulb, allows a device in your satnav or mobile phone to triangulate your location on the ground to within seven yards or so.

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