The Reality Check TRC #692: Cultivating Critical Thinking + Letting Food Cool Before Refrigerating It
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Jul 2, 2024 Exploring cognitive biases and logical fallacies for better understanding, importance of critical thinking in decision-making, challenges in the digital age, and the science behind letting food cool before refrigerating to prevent bacterial growth.
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Cognitive Humility and Kindness
- Practice cognitive humility, understanding you might be wrong.
- Avoid being a jerk, even when wielding critical thinking tools.
Common Cognitive Biases
- Confirmation bias, in-group bias, and recency bias affect our information processing.
- Anchoring bias, sunk cost fallacy, hindsight bias, and availability heuristic influence our decision-making.
Key Logical Fallacies
- Ad hominem attacks and straw man misrepresentations derail arguments.
- False dilemmas, slippery slopes, bandwagon fallacies, and appeals to authority oversimplify reasoning.