The Stanovich etc literature on cognitive biases, last I checked, says you *can* train people to reason probabilistically (by teaching them probability and/or giving them practice making bets) but there's no known way to train people to be more self-skeptical/open-minded.
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Yes, yes! This is my problem with humanities, not that they're not important (they are, very much so), but that it's too easy there to bullshit your way through, both as a student and as an academic
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