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

[lizw.livejournal.com]

Me too, and I suspect a lot of trouble could be saved at the outset by asking the claimant what exactly he means by a dragon in this context. Relatedly, one of the problems with using dragons or unicorns as analogies for religious belief is that, although they are mythical, they predispose us to expect that the claimant is naming something he believes to have properties of the same kind as non-mythical animals, and religious believers are very rarely doing anything comparable.

Interesting site, though, and I will bookmark it.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

It turns out to be syndicated to LJ: over_bias_atom.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Stellar - thanks for finding this! *adds*