Science Pub, February 11th, Cosmic Pizza Weird Science: Knowledge and Intuition at the Fringe

Science Pub, February 11th, Cosmic Pizza Weird Science: Knowledge and Intuition at the Fringe

Perceptual Intuitions...

Audio Pattern Seeking

Are you paying attention?

Sources of Knowledge

Knowledge at the University

Impediments to teaching scholarship and critical evaluation of sources

Allow me to rephrase that...

1. We prefer stories to statistics

2. We seek to confirm rather than question our beliefs

3. Misunderstanding the role of chance and coincidence

4. Trusting the reliability of our senses

5. Inability to grasp magnitudes/properties outside of evolutionary historical experience

6. We prefer bad explanations to no explanation at all

Conclusions for All of Us