Are You a Pseudoscientist?

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i think people are of multiple minds when it comes to how accurate their thinking is, or whether they want to be. There's a scale er called actively open minded thinking m developed by the psychologist john barron. Some people say, no, you should never change your mind. You should stick to your guns. These are people who value kind of am maybe loyalty or or steadfastness, more than they value truth. But then, of course, there's also, weig more difference in practice in how much people live up to these ideals of truth seekingM and so that was sort of more, what i was focused on was, am to what extent are we living up to these ideals

When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. We have what Julia Galef calls a “soldier” mindset: a drive to defend the ideas we most want to believe — and shoot down those we don’t. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a “scout” mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout’s goal isn’t to defend one side over the other. It’s to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what’s actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.