Tag Archives: Critical Thinking

Being Smarter Doesn’t Mean You Make Better Decisions

Posted on June 12, 2012 by AJ Kessler

In fact, being smarter might actually lead you to make worse decisions. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and his scientists measured students on four different points of “cognitive sophistication”.  All four of those measurements were positively correlated with intelligence, meaning that the “more cognitively … Continue reading →

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Kafkatrapping

Posted on March 2, 2012 by AJ Kessler

Excellent way to describe this fallacy: One very notable pathology is a form of argument that, reduced to essence, runs like this: “Your refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of {sin, racism, sexism, homophobia, oppression…} confirms that you are … Continue reading →

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