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216 | John Allen Paulos on Numbers, Narratives, and Numeracy
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is It a Good Idea to Teach Critical Thinking?
I think getting people to know a lot, not just facts, but trends and connections between disparate fields like economics and evolution is worthwhile. People always are drawn me on to some fact, the key formula, the key thing. And often there is no clear thing. Well, and often it's sort of against their interests, right? People don't want to reach certain conclusions. The human brain is really, really good at reaching the conclusions we want to reach,. Not the ones that the data are forcing us to go toward.
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