I feel like a lot of 'platitudes' are worth repeating. Again and again, ad nauseum, long past where people are tired of hearing it. Because they're true, but th

I feel like a lot of 'platitudes' are worth repeating. Again and again, ad nauseum, long past where people are tired of hearing it. Because they're true, but they're very easy to forget. If platitudes can be used to dismiss most articles out of hand, well, maybe things that look like "interesting news" at first glance are often... not. My personal list: - From the article: Correlation IS NOT causation. This should be written in giant flaming letters above every study. It dismisses almost all of them out of hand. - Nearly every judgment you make about somebody is fundamental attribution error. For example, every technical interview ever is nearly fatally flawed. (No, I don't currently have better alternatives.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error - Goodhart's law. Also known as the tragedy of the OKR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law