36 popular logical fallacies, cognitive biases, and red herrings, ready to rubber-stamp your friends' messages! Do your friends LOVE having their logic critici…
W ARM -U P Answer True or False to each of the following questions: 1) A really good commercial could convince me to buy something, even if I wasn’t interested in it before. 2) Most things we see in commercials are based on truth – after all, it’s illegal to falsely represent ...
Posted in Assault on Science, Climate Change, Denier Culture | Tagged Climate Change, Denier psychology, Exposing Deniers, Global Warming, logic, Logical fallacies, motivated reasoning, psychology of climate deniers, Tea Party | 14 Comments There is grandeur in this view of life April 19, 2011...
Biology, anatomy, biogeography, genetics and phylogeny (classification) to understand the Theory of Evolution Argumentation to detect logical fallacies and dishonest tactics Creationism and Intelligent Design to understand their framework, history and techniques Posted in philosophy Mythical Fine Dining Posted...
That is why in the last years one of the most used mantras inbusiness,marketing, sales or any endeavor that deals with human behavior has been about “biases and cognitive fallacies” yet as we’ll see those fallacies are mostly rationality in the real world, applied contextually. ...
How to avoid logical fallacies and critical-thinking fallacies. But it’s not just math and science — I think our overall approach to education could use an overhaul. BIALIK: Well, my children happen to be home-schooled. Actress Mayim Bialik again. BIALIK: One of the reasons that we ...
Frustrebo doesn't show us the power of the mind, but rather the power of an unfair comparison.Just because a published paper presents a statistically significant result does not mean it necessarily has a biologically meaningful effect. Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of ...
Read Logic in Argumentative Writing: Logical Fallacies. Lesson 97 Vocabulary Record these words and their definitions in your notes. Click on each term and summarize its definition so you have a clear understanding of its meaning: deter, diminutive, dispel Reading Some writers from 1955-1964 were...
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Also, I do not understand the figure of 41 million light years distance to the CMB at the time of emmision. It sounds logical that the 3000K radiation at the time of last scattering should have come from everywhere, meaning from zero light years away. And finally, what do 2.7K ...