Form a rational framework for evaluating what people say when you are trying to learn from them.. Basically, when people just give you their opinion and refuse

Form a rational framework for evaluating what people say when you are trying to learn from them.. Basically, when people just give you their opinion and refuse to back it up, remember it is only opinion and NOT anything close to fact. Most BS is easy to detect if you just think about it for a little bit. In some cases, you won't have the knowledge to evaluate a statement well. Try to just go back to these tidbits of information when you have an opportunity to test them or you learn something new to evaluate them. As to the rational framework you should be using, I think the important thing is to have one. Each will suffer from systematic biases and failures of some kind, but as long as you have one you're getting somewhere.