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Yes, seriously. Some examples: An individual without training cannot reliably separate cause from effect, or judge that both events A and B may have a common r
by glitchc 2y ago
Yes, seriously.
Some examples: An individual without training cannot reliably separate cause from effect, or judge that both events A and B may have a common root cause. Similarly, people often confuse conditionals for causation. People often have difficulty reasoning about events based on statistical probabilities. Remember, the average person in North America is far more terrified of a terror attack than an accident or a heart attack, yet the latter two are much more likely to be their cause of death.
- slashdave 2y agoYou mean without training, people cannot frame answers in the terms you've learned from training. Well, why are you surprised? If you think reasoning is limited to the frameworks you learned from a book, you live in a small world.
- glitchc 2y agoIn an effort to be pejorative, you have reduced the process of learning to a basic regurgitation of facts. Rather, learning about reasoning is more about developing a framework that allows one to construct claims based on available information and then check the veracity of those claims while avoiding all, or at least typical, fallacies. Critical thinking requires a certain amount of rigor, which formal education is well-suited to impart. It can be self-taught with a hefty dose of discipline, but it cannot be intuited.