Rhys Taylor I've already been classified as insane, by friends and family, so "crazy" would be a downgrade. Love to research, though. My interpreting skills need a bit of work.
Science is not based on instinct. It's built upon falsifiable claims. As such it never lives in certainty. Unfortunately, our brains are not wired this way and it takes deliberate effort to think like this. So many will choose to believe 100% in a convenient falsehood than 90% in a difficult truth.
Aleksander Suchanowski I'm just not sure I would use the word "instinct". We are all born with certain instincts that served us well when most of what we didn't understand was trying to kill us. Today, instinct and intuition are dangerous when it comes to understanding the world around us.
That said, I agree that training and experience certainly accumulate into a good bullshit detector.
Mike Aben While scientific results are not based on instinct, knowing where to dig to find the results often is - as is knowing where to dig to disprove something that simply 'smells wrong'.
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Rhys Taylor I've already been classified as insane, by friends and family, so "crazy" would be a downgrade. Love to research, though. My interpreting skills need a bit of work.
ReplyDeleteScience is not based on instinct. It's built upon falsifiable claims. As such it never lives in certainty. Unfortunately, our brains are not wired this way and it takes deliberate effort to think like this. So many will choose to believe 100% in a convenient falsehood than 90% in a difficult truth.
ReplyDeleteAleksander Suchanowski I'm just not sure I would use the word "instinct". We are all born with certain instincts that served us well when most of what we didn't understand was trying to kill us. Today, instinct and intuition are dangerous when it comes to understanding the world around us.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I agree that training and experience certainly accumulate into a good bullshit detector.
The more you learn, the more you learn about what you don't know.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet a lot of people who've done a lot of research on miniscule probability tracks are posting this one today >.>
ReplyDeleteReplace "ignorant" with "mainstream".
ReplyDeleteJungle Jargon - or, more concisely . . . The more you learn, the less you know.
ReplyDeleteRhys Taylor - Unfortunately, yes. Otherwise, I'd have to say that the mainstream are ignorant.
ReplyDeleteOf course, sounding crazy does not necessarily mean that one is correct. People who appear crazy can also simply be crazy.
ReplyDeleteRhys Taylor - True, but "there's a fine line between genius and insanity."
ReplyDeleteDavid Lazarus and the closer you are to the line, the harder it is to see it.
ReplyDeleteMike Aben While scientific results are not based on instinct, knowing where to dig to find the results often is - as is knowing where to dig to disprove something that simply 'smells wrong'.
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