Value of critical thinker: - Autonomy: 兼听则明,偏听则暗 - Curiosity - Humility: We know that we don’t know - Respect for good reasoning Be open: We bring lots of personal baggage to every decision we make—–experiences, dreams, values, training, and cultural habits. Emotional involveme...
摘要: On interpretation of the effects of noise on cognitive performance: the fallacy of confusing the definition of an effect with the explanation of that effect关键词: interpretation explanation definition circular argument cognitive noise effects Noise irrelevant sound effect ...
The causal fallacy is thelogical fallacyof incorrectly making a conclusion about an event’s cause. The causal fallacy is actually a category of fallacies rather than one specific line of faulty reasoning. All of the fallacies that fit into this category are characterized by one thing: the illog...
The thesis of this article is that reactions to misfortunes are often biased by the counterfactual fallacy: the tendency to view events that can easily be imagined otherwise as events that ought not to have been. Drawing upon a diverse set of empirical findings we demonstrate that victims' and...
2. Beware especially of making a mistake in logic known as the fallacy of post hoc, ergo propter hoc –Latin words meaning “after this, therefore because of this”. For instance, if a disease broke out soon after X became Minister of Public Health, we would probably make a mistake in ...
Miller, D. T. & Turnbull, W. (1990) The counterfactual fallacy: Confusing what might have been with what ought to have been. Social Justice Research 4:1- 19. [aRMJB]Miller, D.T./Turnbull, W.: The counterfactual fallacy: Confusing what might have been with what ought to have been. ...
The rationalizations discussed in the last chapter -- that God cannot be comprehended or described -- fall under the ad hoc fallacy. Such rationalizations make God so vague that it becomes impossible to refute the idea, but they get the claimant nowhere closer to proving his claim. ...
内容摘录Emotions and logic do not have to be enemies. Logic works perfectly in the abstract mathematical world, but life is more complicated than that. Life involves humans, and humans have emotions. Here in this beautiful and messy world of ours we should use emotions to back up logic, ...
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I agree, and I too have been pushing against the idea that confidence intervals resolve the well-known problems with null hypothesis significance testing. I also had some specific thoughts: For another take on the precision fallacy (the idea that the width of a confidence interval is a measure...