Subject
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Cognitive Bias
Bookmarks
CFAR Handbook 2021: Applied Rationality Curriculum
The CFAR Handbook is the curriculum guide from the Center for Applied Rationality — a workshop-based training program for systematic thinking, calibration, and overcoming cognitive biases. It operationalizes concepts from the LessWrong rationalist community into concrete exercises.
Why We Don't Believe in Science
Jonah Lehrer's New Yorker piece on the psychology of science denial — why people reject empirical findings that conflict with existing beliefs. The mechanism is motivated reasoning, not stupidity: the brain evaluates evidence through the filter of prior commitments.
Revisiting Why Incompetents Think They're Awesome
Ars Technica revisiting the Dunning-Kruger effect — the finding that people with limited knowledge in a domain overestimate their competence while experts underestimate theirs. The 2012 piece examined criticism and refinements of the original 1999 study.