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The next topic in the romp through Mindware by Richard Nisbett is the idea of testing. The scientific way is to test theories to see which hypothesis is true. The author says that if you can do testing, then go for testing over doing regression analysis. Testing gets closer to the reality than regression analysis….
[My Page Builder from Site Origin no longer works since the last WordPress update. I’m not happy! It makes it much harder to format and save these pages!] Are you trying to convince someone to your viewpoint and they just won’t buy it? You try providing facts and logic but it seems to be going…
Continuing with trying to see how we can improve our thinking process, the next series of chapters in Mindware by Richard Nisbett centers around economic thinking. You should get the book because the author has a lot of insightful knowledge about human behavior and I won’t be touching those. There are some really interesting tidbits.But first,…
Today’s short post will be about one of the two books that I’m reading: Mindware. The book is supposed to give you tools for thinking intelligently and discusses ways people err. Thinking intelligently is going to be very important in this day and age of fake news. A lot of people are believing in conspiracy…
I’m still on a book reading binge. This time it’s a book about what kind of skills we will need in the age of roboticization. About 2 years ago, I read Metaskills by Marty Neumeier. Fascinating book. He has so many gems in there. I did a series of posts on the book here. The…
I’ve been reading books in the effort to understand where those Trump supporters may be coming from – what is their worldview. Right now I’m of the view that there are two kinds of Trump supporters: 1) the deplorables who are racists and bigots supporting the philosophies of David Duke and the white nationalists (which…
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