Unit 2 Module 4 Flashcards
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Critical thinking
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Thinking that doesn’t blindly accept arguments and conclusions. It examines assumptions, assesses the source, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence
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Hindsight bias
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The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, the one would have foreseen it
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Tendency to perceive order in random events.
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Lead us to overestimate our intuition
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Scientific attitude
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Equips us to be curious, skeptical, and humble in scrutinizing competing ideas or our own observations
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Humility
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An awareness of our own vulnerability to error and an openness to surprises and new perspectives
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What 3 attitudes make modern science possible
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Curiosity, skepticism, and humility
