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 […]