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Over 250 Cognitive biases, fallacies, and errors

Over 250 Cognitive biases, fallacies, and errors Preface. All of us, no matter how much we’ve read about critical thinking, or have a PhD in science, and are even on the lookout for our biases and fallacies can still fall prey to them, after all, we’re only human. But false belief systems get dangerous when […]

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3 Economic Fallacies That Just Won’t Die

3 Economic Fallacies That Just Won’t Die Henry Hazlitt discussed, dissected, and debunked 22 economic sophisms in his classic work ‘Economics in One Lesson.’ In any academic discipline, one can find two types of experts: those who are incapable of explaining complex ideas in a simple manner; and those capable of making the difficult look […]

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The One Drop Fallacy

The One Drop Fallacy Last month, in the process of exploring the awkward fact that most people in today’s industrial world have never learned how to think, I talked at some length about thoughtstoppers: those crisp little words or phrases that combine absurdity and powerful emotions to short-circuit the thinking process.  Thoughtstoppers, as I noted […]

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