Responsible
Thinking
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The Importance of Responsible Thinking
Do we care whether our beliefs are true?
Good people cause evil
Solving human problems
The explosion of bull
The Nature of Responsible Thinking
Responsible Thinking vs. Critical Thinking
The nature of truth
Common causes of false beliefs
Telling truth vs. seeking truth
Principles of Responsible Thinking
Polarization
Believing other people
Powerful Authorities
A Deceptive Political Commercial
Marketing and con games
More marketing
revised April 15, 2008
Deception in Bulk Mail
Religious and supernatural frauds
Some recent television commercials
Commercials from 1998
Sincere Authorities
Analyzing Arguments and Evidence
Black and white
Hidden assumptions
Cultural assumptions
Testability
Suggestion and Perception
Decisions and Alternatives
Changing Your Perspective
Mathematical Logic and Reasoning
Intuition
Combining Reasoning and Intuition
Avoiding Bias
Rationalization
Superstition
Believing Fiction
Word Definitions
Large and Small Quantities
Zero-sum Games
Misleading Statistics
Unfair Sampling
Vague Claims
Pseudo-logic
Science
What's wrong with science
Experiments
Controls
Blinding
Double blinding
Statistical significance
Experimental report
Replication
Arguing
Problem solving
Guidelines
Promoting Responsible Thinking
Strategy
Appendix
Rethinking Cultural Assumptions
Morality
The nature of human thought