Es lebe unser heiliges Deutschland!
— Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Paul Graham has a wonderful essay online, reading time approximately 10 minutes: Lies We Tell Kids (The essay was brought to my notice via overcomingbias.com) Some quotes: This sentence is gold: The truth is common property. You can’t distinguish your group by doing things that are rational, and believing things that are true. If you [...]
This is so scary. (This is in the U.S. Senate, not somewhere in a backwater countryside. These people decide over war and peace). YouTube – Christian extremists disrupt Hindu Senate invocation Technorati Tags: bias
Nice and controversial: the Pinker List on “taboo” questions and some remarks by Gelman: What is a taboo question? I think these questions (and others) must be asked and discussed in free societies. Technorati Tags: bias
Here some more links devoted to rational thinking, which I found on the site mentioned in the previous post and which are simply excellent: Chance Welcome Page Fallacy Files Argument Mapping Tutorials Technorati Tags: bias, cognitive science, rationality, statistics
