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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Truthiness and critical thinking.

I made an earlier post about truth and lying but I thought that it would be worth mentioning this article and exploring the idea of cognitive bias a bit more.

I reference fallacies quite a bit. But they are more about specific structures that are incorrect. Certain cognitive biases are more about the way we handle information in an intuitive manner. And why we are so bad at it. Going with how you feel about an idea is not typically a good criteria. Relying on the impression is only useful towards the end of a concentrated training and if that overlaps with specific areas of bias we may never be able to rely on instinct but only its second guessing.

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