Q-Links

Critical thinking

I inserted the category "Skepticism" because I consider "thinking for yourself" combined with a certain rate of doubt and distrust of authority a valuable atttitude. But maybe "critical thinking" would have been a better term for this interest. 

Wikipedia defines it as:

Critical thinking is purposeful and reflective judgment about what to believe or what to do in response to observations, experience, verbal or written expressions, or arguments. Critical thinking might involve determining the meaning and significance of what is observed or expressed, or, concerning a given inference or argument, determining whether there is adequate justification to accept the conclusion as true.

Skepsis in Nederland

Stichting Skepsis onderzoekt pseudowetenschap en het paranormale. Geweldig leesvoer onder de kop "skeptische artikelen" voor diegenen die hun kop niet in andermans (los) zand wensen te steken.

I could not have said it better!

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who don’t have the courage to sometimes say: I don’t know...." (You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment & make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race). What I do: I am interested in how to live in a world we don’t understand very well –in other words, while most human thought (particularly since the enlightenment) has focused us on how to turn knowledge into decisions, I am interested in how to turn lack of information, lack of understanding, and lack of “knowledge” into decisions –how not to be a “turkey”.

How Taleb thinks about economics is summarized in the article "Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world"

Michael Shermer

One of the guys leading the skeptic discussions in the US: Michael Shermer .

Here you can find a presentation of Shermer. 

Skeptic detail that puzzles me: Why is the sponsor BMW?

The evolution of expertise

It's qomic to investigate the difference between expertise and authority. Again some smart words heard in the collegerooms of Google: "the evolution of expertise".