Overcoming bias

[ciphergoth]

http://www.overcomingbias.com/

This site is totally fascinating, and like TV Tropes and Wikipedia, it has that hyperlink-means-staying-forever power.

ETA: I'm going to start adding some especially cool entries here as I find them:

• Belief in belief
• Making beliefs pay rent
• Hindsight bias
• The proper use of doubt

ETA: I can't help but notice that all the essays that make me go "eee!" are by Eliezer Yudkowsky, who also describes the Twelve Virtues of Rationality. I think I have a new hero.

ETA: I'll probably link back to here in another post once I've added a few more links.

• Outside the laboratory
• Human evil and muddled thinking
• How to seem (and be) deep

Comments

[djm4]

Yes. As with the many other believers in my life who perceive things I don't, and don't perceive things I do, I've no idea if either of us is blind/hallucinating, or if the same things just look different wehn viewed by someone else. And without swapping brains, I suspect we've no way of knowing.

In other words, I don't know whether even to ask 'which of us is wrong?' is a meaningful question.