I learned from this a new way of thinking about thinking, “cognitive decoupling,” and its role in disagreements.https://twitter.com/everytstudies/status/989544002511949825 …
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Replying to @literalbanana @Meaningness
It sounds like a fancy way of saying 'talking past each other' @?)
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Replying to @ArtirKel @literalbanana
They were talking past each other, but the thesis is that they were doing so because one of them was decoupling (Harris) and the other wasn’t (Klein). cc:
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1/From quick perusal, it looks like Keith Stanovich is one of several 90s alt-psychologists (along with Dan Coleman, etc.) who propounded a way of filling in the gaps of what Eysenck called "intelligence 2;" i.e., that portion of what we ordinarily call intelligence not captured
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @Meaningness and
2/by "intelligence 3" (g). Stanovich identified a bunch of irrational ways of thought, in an Amos Tversky, and (per the reporting here) it's suggested by the work of Tetlock &c that having a high g might be necessary, but is not sufficient, to (i) avoid irrational thinking; nor,
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @Meaningness and
3/(ii) relatedly, accurately evaluate how rational you've been. All well and good, though I'm not familiar with the empirics, and reading the description of Stanovich's work grated a little, as it seemed like he was hiding the ball as to the extent to which all general knowledge
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @ArtirKel and
Ah, interesting, I hadn’t gone back to Stanovich at all, just assumed that the concept was being reported accurately in the blog posts.
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Replying to @Meaningness @ArtirKel and
Just to be clear, I haven't read his work in any depth, I just did a quick Google! My prior is to be suspicious of "g-factor isn't everything 90s popular psychologists," but he doesn't seem like an obvious crank.
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I am sure you are shocked and saddened by yesterday’s revelations about Sternberg
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Replying to @Meaningness @ArtirKel and
I am waiting for all the facts to be in and to see if I have any papers I want to publish in his journals to pronounce judgment.
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