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While I agree with your heuristic, it's not a universal truth. It doesn't apply in every single instance. When I see a book which is mostly a chronological lis

While I agree with your heuristic, it's not a universal truth. It doesn't apply in every single instance. When I see a book which is mostly a chronological list of references to events in the philosophy of education (as is the first book on the list) I don't dismiss it outright. Also let me add that when I agree that "doing your own research" is likely to have bad results, that reason for that is that most people are stupid, not that thinking critically is bad.

RealityVoid 1y ago
I honestly don't think it's stupidity that prevents you from having a good result. I think there are 2 likely causes. First, and most common is an emotional cause. Falling in love with a theory, settling on it, emotionally, before you even start digging, will make you weight data differently. Extremely smart people will fall pray to this and, again, this is not an intellectual issue, it's an emotional one. I think pursuit of truth is an emotional endeavor as much as it is an intellectual one. The second one is plainly bad data. Here you can arrive very easily even if you are extremely smart and you are emotionally developed to let yourself get out of your way. Getting data is expensive, so a lot of times we avoid gathering it ourselves Bad data will ruin you and taint your conclusion. People closes to practicing something are most capable of surmounting this because they are capable of gathering their own data.
- sdfgsdhjsdffw 1y ago
  > First, and most common is an emotional cause. Falling in love with a theory, settling on it, emotionally, before you even start digging, will make you weight data differently. Extremely smart people will fall pray to this and, again, this is not an intellectual issue, it's an emotional one. I think pursuit of truth is an emotional endeavor as much as it is an intellectual one. I agree with this.

RealityVoid 1y ago

I honestly don't think it's stupidity that prevents you from having a good result. I think there are 2 likely causes. First, and most common is an emotional cause. Falling in love with a theory, settling on it, emotionally, before you even start digging, will make you weight data differently. Extremely smart people will fall pray to this and, again, this is not an intellectual issue, it's an emotional one. I think pursuit of truth is an emotional endeavor as much as it is an intellectual one. The second one is plainly bad data. Here you can arrive very easily even if you are extremely smart and you are emotionally developed to let yourself get out of your way. Getting data is expensive, so a lot of times we avoid gathering it ourselves Bad data will ruin you and taint your conclusion. People closes to practicing something are most capable of surmounting this because they are capable of gathering their own data.

sdfgsdhjsdffw 1y ago
> First, and most common is an emotional cause. Falling in love with a theory, settling on it, emotionally, before you even start digging, will make you weight data differently. Extremely smart people will fall pray to this and, again, this is not an intellectual issue, it's an emotional one. I think pursuit of truth is an emotional endeavor as much as it is an intellectual one. I agree with this.