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Why Smart People Get Things Wrong with Candice Basterfield and Shauna Bowes – YouTube

by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 11, 2021 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking

8 logical fallacies that are hard to spot – Big Think

by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 30, 2021 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking

8 logical fallacies that are hard to spot In arguments, few things are more frustrating than when you realize that someone is using bad logic, but you can’t quite identify what the problem is. This rarely happens with the more well-known logical fallacies. For...

Comforting Lies Unpleasant Truths

by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 12, 2021 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking

You Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’ When It Comes To Science

by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 1, 2020 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking

Arguably one of the most important lessons on critical thinking I have ever seen articulated! This is exactly what I mean when I say, when I come to the relazation, that I AM NOT SO SMART… “…Even those of us with excellent critical thinking skills...

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds | James Clear

by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 28, 2020 | • Politics, Behavior, Cognitive Bias, Psychology

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds The economist J.K. Galbraith once wrote, “Faced with a choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the...

How To Deconvert Conspiracy Theorists – Parts 1 &2 (Epistemology & Demarcation) – YouTube

by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 9, 2020 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking, Philosophy, Psychology

The many cognitive biases that screw up everything we do – Business Insider

by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 31, 2020 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking

A few year ago now reading Daniel Kahneman’s seminal book Thinking, Fast and Slow changed the way I looked at everything around me. It was so important I read or listened to it three times and even bought several of the summary and analysis books too to act as study...

Fantasyland: The History of America’s Irrationality | Kurt Andersen – YouTube

by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 3, 2020 | • Politics, Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking

From the beginning of Kurt Andersen’s (Wikipedia & KurtAndersen.com) lecture: Back thirty years before he was President in United States, twenty years before there was a United States, John Adams as you may know served as the defense lawyer for the British...

Why conservatives are more susceptible to believing in lies. | Slate

by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 18, 2019 | • Politics, Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking, Science

Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies? Many conservatives have a loose relationship with facts. The right-wing denial of what most people think of as accepted reality starts with political issues: As recently as 2016, 45 percent of Republicans still...

24 Cognitive Biases That Are Warping Your Perception of Reality

by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 12, 2018 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking

A great infographic… 24 Cognitive Biases That Are Warping Your Perception of Reality We are each entitled to our own personal world view. Unfortunately, when it comes to interpreting information and making objective sense of reality, human brains are hard-wired...

5 tips to improve your critical thinking – Samantha Agoos

by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 30, 2018 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking

Why Incompetent People Often Think They’re Actually The Best – Vox

by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 26, 2017 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking

Why incompetent people often think they’re actually the best Maybe you’ve experienced this at school or work before: Dealing with someone who thinks he’s much better at his job than he really is. This can not only be really annoying, but it can lead...
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