Two complications beyond the warning signs

Stories can be misleading despite providing information.

• Some stories can feature a combination of warning signs. The more warning signs a story shows, the more scepticism is needed.
• Time-related biases and selection problems can happen even when every other part of the story is correct.

The solution isn't to stop telling stories as they provide vital benefits. But astute decision-makers can take convincing narratives as theories to be scrutinized, rather than absolute truths.