Notes on Thinking - Revision history

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Belief */

2021-12-14T00:52:22Z

‎Belief

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Sympathy and Empathy */

2021-11-29T19:15:56Z

‎Sympathy and Empathy

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Trying to Think: Using Your Brain */

2021-05-26T12:43:01Z

‎Trying to Think: Using Your Brain

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Modelling and Prediction */

2021-05-14T13:15:19Z

‎Modelling and Prediction

Erasmuse: /* Miscellaneous */

2021-03-13T03:14:24Z

‎Miscellaneous

Rasmusen p1vaim at 21:55, 20 February 2021

2021-02-20T21:55:27Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Men versus Women */

2021-02-18T21:14:00Z

‎Men versus Women

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Men versus Women */

2021-02-18T21:12:54Z

‎Men versus Women

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Men versus Women */

2021-02-18T20:55:41Z

‎Men versus Women

Rasmusen p1vaim at 20:54, 18 February 2021

2021-02-18T20:54:33Z

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 ==Belief==
 To believe something means to be willing to take action based on it.
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 Maryam Hasantash and Arash Afraz.
 PNAS December 8, 2020
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 ==Sympathy and Empathy==
-Beta Testing. Beta testing of products, focus groups, and showing your writing to other people for comment is useful for everyone. It is more important the less intelligent you are, though. This is not just because you make more mistakes. It is also because you are less capable of seeing your work as other people see it. The intelligent person can put himself in the user's place and imagine, from their point of view, how they might be puzzled by how something works or what a piece of writing means. The unintelligent person can only see it from his own point of view.
+:Note, however, that though intelligence is highly correlated with this kind of empathy-- the kind where you can imagine how the other person feels, whether or not you can feel what they will be feeling-- it is not correlated 100%.  Many people are highly intelligent but caught in their own viewpoint. High-functioning autism is an example, though this can be true even for completely non-autistic people. The autistic person just can't see something the way other people do without training himself to do so and then doing so by force of intellect. The narcissist can't either, I think, though I don't know enough about that disorder. And there are intelligent people who are neither narcissist nor autistic but just rigid in their thinking. Indeed, being able to put yourself in someone else's place is closely related to being able to "think outside the box", because it at least means you know how to escape your own box and put yourself in somebody else's.
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-{{Quotation| On Exactitude in Science Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions, translated by Andrew Hurley....In that  Empire,  the  Art  of  Cartography  attained  such  Perfection that  the  map  of  a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of   a   Province.   In time,   those Unconscionable Maps   nolonger   satisfied,   and   the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, andwhich  coincided  point  for  point  with  it.  The  following  Generations,  who  were  not  so fond  of  the  Study  of  Cartography  as  their  Forebears  had  been,  saw  that  that  vast  Map was  Useless,  and  not  without  some  Pitilessness  was  it,  that  they  delivered  it  up  to  the Inclemencies  of  Sun  and  Winters.  In the Deserts  of  the West,  still  today,  there are Tattered  Ruins  of that  Map,  inhabited  by Animals  and  Beggars;  in  all the  Land  there  is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.—Suarez Miranda,Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV,Cap. XLV, Lerida, 1658
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 ==Belief==

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 . Thinking about improving a situation rather than just accepting it (I finally tried using an external mike for my zooming-- why didn't I try to improve that six months ago?)
 I suspect that being good at these two things is why so many people who have little brains and little education do so well anyway in business and life. Tho, to be sure, most of the people I've known who have been successful have pretty good brains too. I am struck, though, by how often I and others make dumb mistakes not by thinking about it and coming to wrong conclusions, but by not thinking about it at all when just  a little thought would have revealed the right answer.
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+When we talk about teaching "critical thinking", what we really mean is "remembering to think". The key is to think about what you see. Most people don't do that. This is independent of IQ-- of how well you think. That's one reason low-IQ people can succeed.
 ==Modelling and Prediction==
 {{Quotation| In my experience, for making predictions, simple models are typically better than relatively complex ones. The modeller does need to have a sense of how to cancel out likely errors, though. I expect this is the actual skill that Youyang has shown.

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 ==Modelling and Prediction==
 {{Quotation| In my experience, for making predictions, simple models are typically better than relatively complex ones. The modeller does need to have a sense of how to cancel out likely errors, though. I expect this is the actual skill that Youyang has shown.
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 Complex models are useful for demonstrating how systems work. That is, as a teaching tool when working with well understood systems.
 --https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/02/profile-of-youyang-gu.html#comment-160228475}}
 ==Thinking in terms of models, and conditional statements generally==

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 ==Miscellaneous==
 People hate facts. They think it's unfair trickery.
-Remember Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado:
+Remember Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Mikado:''
 I've got a little list
 Of society offenders who might well be underground...
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 Similar:  2 equals the square root of two.  Replace the1+1  route along the sides of a square from one corner to the opposite with  .5+.5+.5+.5, and keep increasing the number of sharp turns till the route is the diagonal. The  fallacy has real-world implications for pedestrians.
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 ==Thinking in terms of models, and conditional statements generally==
 Models are conditional statements: If the Assumptions are true, Then the Conclusions are true. Thus, we need to start by thinking about conditional statements. Most people have a lot of trouble with them.
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 ==Men versus Women==
 Are women more sympathetic but men more empathetic? Women are more emotional and compassionate, but men are more objective and better able to put themselves in other people's places.

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 Comment: One of the most fascinating books I have read is “Self-Made Man” by Norah Vincent. Vincent decided to disguise herself as a man for a year, with the intention of learning more about males and then writing a fascinating book about it. Among other things Vincent sought out male bastions that were generally closed to females – a bowling club, a monastery etc. One of the things that amazed her were how men were focused on excellence rather than dominance. She joined a bowling club but she was a terrible bowler. Even so, men on her team encouraged her and didn’t shame her, and a few times men from the competing team came over to her and gave her tips on how to improve her game. (Even though money was riding on these games.) Vincent writes that women don’t naturally act this way. I am not qualified to judge if Vincent is right but it fits right in with what Arnold is getting at.
 --https://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/feminized-culture/}}
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 Two Conceptions of Teamwork.  One way to think of teamwork is as division of labor: I stay near the goalpost, and you go on the offensive. A second way is to think of it as cooperation: we encourage each other in doing our math homework. The first way is male; the second way is female.  The female way can  be very counterproductive. Rather than having one sentry stay awake from  midnight to 4am and the other from 4am to 8am, it has both stay up from midnight to 8am to provide company and encouragement for each other.
 ==Sympathy and Empathy==