Posted by Steve on August 27th, 2008 in Uncategorized
I’ve written before about confirmation bias from a more negative, or cynical perspective. This fascinating article about the practice of noticing touches on some of the same ideas but from a much different (and more useful) angle.
I’ve noticed in my own life that i don’t notice nearly as much external (potential) stimulus as i would [...]
Posted by Steve on December 20th, 2007 in Uncategorized
In September of 1975 a bunch of scientists and Nobel Laureates put out an article officially decrying astrology as not true. I’m not sure what things were like back in 1975 regarding science and pseudo science, but I imagine if this happened today, we’d all laugh these scientists right back to their beakers. [...]