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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Ironically, doing research is the best way to be right. What people want is to feel right without having to think very hard. Feelings don’t really require energy in the same way that thinking does.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

More than just research is needed and that's what many miss. One must be able to reliably evaluate the quality of evidence to sort fact from baloney. Doing so requires critical thinking, the ability to be able to poke holes in theories regardless of whether you like them or not, and the willingness to be wrong and, above all else, the mental flexibility to update your knowledge when proven so. Not everyone is able to do that.

I am used to being wrong a lot so it comes naturally lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I end most of my thoughts with "but I may be wrong"

[–] Zekas 1 points 10 months ago

I start them like that. Anxiety is a bitch

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