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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Is everyone to shy to say psychedelics?
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I'm not shy to say it but I'm basically a charlatan whereas Sarah is a legitimate scientist with a reputation and everything!
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Just today I took a training on DRBFM (Design Review Based on Failure Modes). It's a group-level practice, so it might not apply to your Q. (Very skeptically, perhaps the only thing it does is bring N more sets of eyes in, hoping that sb. will call BS on major logical holes.)
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Group-based is still cool! How does it work?
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I wonder if programming does this. People anecdotally report that it does because everyone writes code thinking it’s correct and then is frequently proven wrong.
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Something I read once pointed out that in humanities fields, you can go indefinitely without having ever had the experience of being shown to be definitively wrong about anything. Really stuck with me; it may explain a lot!
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From what I heard, training people to imagine alternative explanations is a good way of preventing people from jumping to conclusions, at least when it comes to causal inference. Maybe there was some more research done among these lines, sounds plausible.
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Not empirically validated, but anecdotally: for 2 person debates, I found a lot of success in using a variation of the "wright brother technique". the few times I was able to persuade someone to shift a political view, I was using this approach.https://xkcd.com/106/
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for personally changing my own opinions, I've been doing a lot of reflection on this topic recently. Like many people that started off in the rationalist crowd I used to think I was good at this, but I've been finding value in deconstructing this assumption. Am I *actually* good?
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What about investment markets? People need to be open minded about risks in order to protect investments
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