Not-science: look for confirmatory evidence for your position
Science: look for disconfirmatory evidence for your position
I fucking love Science! (Or just Science!): look for disconfirmatory evidence for the other guy’s position. Those outgroup assholes *must* be wrong
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What to do in social sciences? What in ethics, where there is always a subjective aspect? For every position you can find disconfirmatory position. This science approach was very unproductive in my social domain of life. You just walk in circles of disconfirming.
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Other interesting aspect is that being disconfirmatory is very bad for building rapport. Its very anti-sales.


