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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Ironically, doing research is the best way to be right. What people want is to feel right without having to think very hard. Feelings don’t really require energy in the same way that thinking does.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

More than just research is needed and that's what many miss. One must be able to reliably evaluate the quality of evidence to sort fact from baloney. Doing so requires critical thinking, the ability to be able to poke holes in theories regardless of whether you like them or not, and the willingness to be wrong and, above all else, the mental flexibility to update your knowledge when proven so. Not everyone is able to do that.

I am used to being wrong a lot so it comes naturally lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I end most of my thoughts with "but I may be wrong"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I start them like that. Anxiety is a bitch

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