Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths: The psychology of mistakes in thought, perception and pattern-spotting, and how to avoid fallacies

Hence, why knowledge of kinds of thinking errors becomes important. But it's rarely researched nor taught. You must use experts wisely, based on their peer-reviewed published work, not normally on their general opinions.

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Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths: The psychology of mistakes in thought, perception and pattern-spotting, and how to avoid fallacies

Added ch 2.4: Outside of their field of expertise, #specialists can believe just as much nonsense as anyone. In fact, if you are intelligent, it can be harder to shake-off a crazy idea, due to being better at finding evidence for it.

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Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths Errors in Thinking: Cognitive Errors, Wishful Thinking and Sacred Truths: The psychology of mistakes in thought, perception and pattern-spotting, and how to avoid fallacies

Added two new sections: 1.4: Wishful Thinking, and 2.4: Denialism.

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Statistical Regression: Causes of Strange Beliefs and Pseudoscience Statistical Regression: Causes of Strange Beliefs and Pseudoscience: No matter how much it goes against common-sense to deny the correlation, cognitive thinking errors such as the regression fallacy c...

Under-appreciating statistical regression is the cause of many zany beliefs, alternative medical practices and superstitions. Added another example to section #1.

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