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Evaluating Evidence Against Evidence
In your book, you talked about how humans are causal thinkers. This means that we're good at coming up with theories to explain things but not so much when it comes to evaluating the evidence or facts in our hands. Why do you think this is? Well, lesit, i'm a great question, sav. I me think cognition is attuned to making sensible word and building s that allow us to predict and act on it. But to properly evaluate models against evidence, we need to go beyond this capacity of just building a model of the world,. And we need to reflect on the relationship between our models and the evidence.
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