Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby

Sunday 2 December 2018

A brief list of ways to form a conclusion

A nice enough little list of different techniques of forming conclusions. I'm not really sure they're terribly well unified but the summaries are nice all the same.
https://www.clearerthinking.org/single-post/2018/11/26/12-Ways-To-Draw-Conclusions-From-Information

2 comments:

  1. I initially read "ways to draw confusion from information", which seemed quite à propos for our troubled times, if a bit cynic...

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  2. Well, top of that list would surely be, "misread it".... :D

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