Tag: cognitive biases
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Why I had disbelief in IQ?
Are you kidding me? You want to tell me there is a number which rules everything. Every single ability is derived from particular IQ. For a kid questioning everything not a good idea. So why did I have disbelief in IQ? But the number somehow mattered. I have observed pupils who had very good school…
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Limited knowledge and being always wrong on something
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where people with low ability or knowledge overestimate their competence, while those with high ability tend to underestimate theirs, often because they are more aware of the complexity of the subject. But this paragraph is merely a part of the wider topic. My article aims to show our…
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Educated person? What does it mean?
My grandfather proclaimed that Miss of the Czech Republic must be smart. In his view, it was command of foreign languages (of course, learning a foreign language means you never master it just like your native tongue), some superficial general knowledge, and some ability to respond to more difficult questions. Is that an educated person?…
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Israelis and Palestinians’ common enemy: critical thinking
Either you are pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinains on X. So these two sides label each other as the worst scum. And if you are objective, maintain the absence of cognitive biases, fallacies, informal fallacies and uphold moral values, well, you are scum too. I have made an observation – Israelis and Palestinians have a common enemy…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Critical Thinking
In 2024, there is information overload. In the country where I live, media and their super-rich owners don’t compete over who brings the news first anymore. They just get their shared power and the people above them tell them what to write and which medium to include to. Floods, high casualties, and accidents just don’t…
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Skeptic turned believer: Exposing the super-rich families
Do you think I am a person who can be tricked into believing something just by reading it or seeing it? Definitely wrong! I am a person who doesn’t make the final judgment and then makes arguments accordingly that they fit the judgment. If I have any assets at all, this is non-adherence to cognitive…
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The educational system the super-rich want
How can people possibly know the current formal educational system is flawed when they were nursed by the very same educational system? And how to find the educational system is the super-rich’s weapon when they don’t know the super-rich rule us all. And I am not talking about pupils, students, and alumni, but also professors who…
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Why is impossible for a lot of people to leave their faith?
The truth that all religions are false is nearly (I always want to leave a certain piece of probability; unlike the vast majority of believers) indisputable. Just for starter: evolution (including that religion is a product of it), karma, soul, prayer, creation, Gods, cycle of life, death, and rebirth, or a single, finite earthly life…
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The malevolent purpose of the formal education system
I have never understood why the American private high schools suck (sorry, I cannot put it in another way). I understood the poor level of the state schools, but private ones? These are schools for the 19th century (or for the Middle Ages). And what would I put into their curriculum? Mathematics (even in a…