Responsible Thinking: Outline
Responsible
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The Importance of Responsible Thinking
Do we care whether our beliefs are true?
Good people cause evil
revised Feb 20, 2012
Solving human problems
The explosion of bull
The Nature of Responsible Thinking
Responsible Thinking vs. Critical Thinking
The nature of truth
Common causes of false beliefs
Telling truth vs. seeking truth
Principles of Responsible Thinking
Polarization
Believing other people
Powerful Authorities
A Deceptive Political Commercial
Marketing and con games
revised April 10, 2013
More marketing
Deception in Bulk Mail
Religious and supernatural frauds
Some recent television commercials
added Feb 8, 2010
Commercials from 2004
Commercials from 1998
Sincere Authorities
Analyzing Arguments and Evidence
Black and white
Hidden assumptions
Cultural assumptions
Testability
Suggestion and Perception
Decisions and Alternatives
Changing Your Perspective
Mathematical Logic and Reasoning
Intuition
Combining Reasoning and Intuition
Avoiding Bias
Rationalization
Superstition
Believing Fiction
Quantity and Measurement
Word Definitions
Large and Small Quantities
Counting Unequal Things
added April 4, 2013
Zero-sum Games
Misleading Statistics
Unfair Sampling
Free Inquiry
Vague Claims
Faulty Logic
Science
revised April 25, 2010
What's wrong with science
Experiments
Controls
Blinding
Double blinding
Statistical significance
Experimental report
Replication
Arguing
Problem solving
Guidelines
Promoting Responsible Thinking
Strategy
Appendix
Rethinking Cultural Assumptions
Morality
The nature of human thought