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Confirmation Bias

Being smart and educated does not protect you from confirmation bias: the tendency to only take in new evidence, that aligns with your currently rooted beliefs. On the contrary, smart people can also use their cognitive powers to justify what they already believe (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2182588). More than knowledge itself, curiosity is a trait that can help […]

Paradigm Shifts

Thomas Kuhn defined a paradigm shift as a fundamental change in the basic scientific concepts and understanding of the world. Scientific progression, he said, alternated between everyday science building upon current knowledge, and the paradigm shifts that opened up new approaches to understanding what would never have considered valid before. In a personal sense, a […]

Amsterdam

Jeg sidder på en café. Der er lyde fra mange forskellige kilder. Menneskeskabte alle sammen. Der kommer noget baggrundsmusik et sted fra, og smelter sammen med resten af akustikken. Drukner let i lydene fra skranken. Masseproduceret kaffe i forskellige former og smage bliver fremstillet af erfarne hænder og langet hen over disken. Lyden af kaffen […]

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