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thinking rationally means making proper inferences. A rational person knows how to reason to conclusions that are most likely to be true.
“What they really mean is that “numbers can be used to confuse people, especially the gullible ones lacking basic skills with numbers.” With this, I completely agree,”
― How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
― How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
“It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. —Aristotle (384 b.c.–322 b.c.)”
― How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
― How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
“The fact is that the preference for ignorance over even marginal reductions in ignorance is never the moral high ground.”
― How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
― How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
“the competing theory must not only account for any new evidence, but also for the evidence that we amassed previously.”
― Textbook Rationality: Rationality - and why we should teach it in schools
― Textbook Rationality: Rationality - and why we should teach it in schools
“The cultural goal would be to raise the standard of rational due diligence, in both public discourse and personal reflection. Until we do this, the scientific revolution is not truly complete. Science has not reached its full potential until citizens have the rationality skills to responsibly interpret science stories in the media.”
― Textbook Rationality: Rationality - and why we should teach it in schools
― Textbook Rationality: Rationality - and why we should teach it in schools
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