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...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 7, 2017 | Brain Science, Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking
Dr. Steven Novella Talks About Why Our Brains Really Suck at QED 2011 in Manchester. At approximately 37:00 minutes in he explains how the reasoning powers in our prefrontal cortex can evaluate the interpretations from other areas of our brain and use “Critical...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 6, 2017 | • Politics, Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking
Via March for Science on FaceBook… It bears repeating and emphasis: “THIS IS WHY WE ALL NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD.” and People having an uninformed opinion about something they don’t understand and proclaiming their opinion as...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 6, 2017 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking
The full speech from which this shorter video was constructed…
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 16, 2017 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking
The Scout vs.Soldier Mindset (Motivated Reasoning) I’ve wanted to write my own article here about what Julia Galef has written and spoken about the Scout vs.Soldier Mindset but I can’t do much better than this article here: Why do some of us have better...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 11, 2017 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking
10 Problems With How We Think By nature, human beings are illogical and irrational. For most of our existence, survival meant thinking quickly, not methodically. Making a life-saving decision was more important than making a 100% accurate one, so the human brain...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 3, 2017 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking
Wow,… this is arguably one of the very best explanations of why we believe what we believe and perhaps more importantly why it is so hard for us to change our minds. It’s long for The Oatmeal but it is well worth it. You’re not going to believe what...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 17, 2017 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note had been composed by a random individual, the other...
