Are you smart?

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So I've been doing a bit more reading on various fallacy's, flaws of the mind & errors in my fellow humans (along with my own) methods of judgement.

Do we spend enough time in society examining how we think?, a great little site with a number of popular errors in thinking below.

http://youarenotsosmart.com/all-posts/

I really don't understand why this kind of thing isn't including in basic education, as without a real understanding of reality & errors in our default mode of thinking how are people ever really going to make intelligent decisions in life, let alone in the polling booth.
 
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elmarko1234 said:
So I've been doing a bit more reading on various fallacy's, flaws of the mind & errors in my fellow humans (along with my own) methods of judgement.

Do we spend enough time in society examining how we think?, a great little site with a number of popular errors in thinking below.

http://youarenotsosmart.com

I really don't understand why this kind of thing isn't including in basic education, as without a real understanding of reality & errors in our default mode of thinking how are people ever really going to make intelligent decisions in life, let alone in the polling booth.
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A lot of those studies seem flawed - they often don't take into account individual personality traits, etc. (treat all test subjects as if they are dumb sheep) - i.e. in some cases people might have additional motivations i.e. fear of failure that might provoke them to do things that other people in the test group may not do.
 
To shamelessly rip off pratchett...
Second Thoughts, which are defined as 'the thoughts you think about the way you think'. ... Third Thoughts, (the thoughts you think about the way you think about the way you think,) and Fourth Thoughts, (the thoughts you think about the way you think about the way you think about the way you think.)
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Rroff said:
A lot of those studies seem flawed - they often don't take into account individual personality traits, etc. (treat all test subjects as if they are dumb sheep) - i.e. in some cases people might have additional motivations i.e. fear of failure that might provoke them to do things that other people in the test group may not do.
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You do understand that studies use large samples to counter this kind of situation?, they don't ask three people.

http://youarenotsosmart.com/all-posts/ - plenty of different articles on different fallacies (should have used that link instead tbh).
 
You don't need money to be happy, just look at this kid:

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The lack of critical thinking and debating skills in the general population scares me most of the time. Even on a site like this, where the average education level is above the national average shows a shocking level of fallacy, lack of understanding and quite often a lack of clear thinking.

It makes me sad.
 
Happiness and increasing GDP have basically no correlation, over time whilst Happiness has remained relatively constant whilst GDP increases. Relative income however has much more effect on your Happiness - keeping up with the Jones' etc...

kd
 
Whether you are 'smart' or not depends entirely on your peer group.....it is a relative and subjective thing.

How do you quantify Smart?
 
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