Posts tagged with "thinking"

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Happy idiots

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Opinion masquerading as wisdom

This was an interesting looks at what constitutes fact based vs opinion journalism: What are facts? There are many interpretations. Some of them say that facts are fluid and open to interpretation....

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Conspiracies are easy

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Tell me what i want to hear

Great quote from Reddit: It must be hard taking your car to 100 mechanics before you get to one that tells you your brakes are working just fine. It must be hard going to 100 doctors before you find...

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JAQing Off

From the great comic, Wondermark, a word for the type of trolling some people do: This comic created the concept of sealioning. If anyone does this to you, cut them out of your life immediately. This...

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You didn't research that

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Why Do People Believe In Conspiracy Theories?

Following the hierarchy of evidence, the sections here are organized from the strongest to the weakest evidence: ' Systematic reviews/meta analyses Social science research

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Making Decisions

Decision making is a multi-faceted subject. It goes beyond just deciding yes or no. As the resources below will show you, there are a number of ways to make decisions optimally. Behavioral Economics...

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The curse of having an opinion about everything

The Curse of Having an Opinion About Everything To say: “I don’t have an opinion on that.” (Even if deep down we do!) To focus on the things in front of us that matter, or more importantly, that are...

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Conspiracy theorists

Conspiracy Theorists Aren’t Really Skeptics: Conspiracy believers are the ultimate motivated skeptics. Their curse is that they apply this selective scrutiny not to the left or right, but to the...

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Evaluating Information

Conspiracy theorists seem to be people who are uncomfortable with the unknown. Explanations for unexplainable things, no matter how outlandish, are better than the alternative. The alternative is to...

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