Kathryn Schulz: Being Wrong
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Uploaded by poptech on Jan 4, 2011
Kathryn Schulz is an expert on being wrong. The journalist and author of "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margins of Error," says we make mistakes all the time. The trouble is that often times being wrong feels like being right. What's more, we're usually wrong about what it even means to make mistakes--and how it can lead to better ideas.
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very cool talk
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Funny about being wrong...her comment about the pessimistic meta induction is also wrong. I'm most cases science was not proven wrong...exactly...new science was "more right." Einstein is more right than Newton. But Newton was not wrong. Indeed, we still uses Newton's equations for just about everything for basic engineering to sending vehicles into space. But everyone in physics knows that Einstein was more right than Newton.
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The pink barrel is really disturbing.
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Just kidding. Don't do it. It's frightening.
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Tell a religious person they are wrong. It's funny.
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Being a journal writer, I know this first-hand. I'll re-read something that I remember from a few years ago and see how it's different from my memory.
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her point was that different people might develop different methods of checking such as actually comparing the two colors together instead of just looking at them from far away and within their illusionary context.
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Wait, because by your own admission, of her speach being proven wrong eventually... your comment will eventually be prooved wrong and her speach will be right again ;) Just playing with an infinate regress argument that was beging me. Of course her diatribe was not about her own speach but again ending authoritarianism and absolutism.
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The roadrunner never runs off the cliff (to my memory). He merely dodges and the coyote runs off by himself. (I think). Hmmm. I may be wrong.
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I used to think that I simply hated being wrong until my professor decided that he would disable reviewing our online tests (we can take the tests and get a grade but not know which questions we got wrong). Now I know that hate being wrong and not knowing how to fix it more than simply being wrong. I also learned that my professor is a dick.
CakeFace579 2 months ago 12
great stuff
grondorian 2 months ago 6