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To help improve rational thought

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Buck, Jun 30, 2017.

  1. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    I've notice that many people, possibly most, lack the capacity for rational thought.
    Or maybe just the capacity to think rationally on a consistent basis.

    Check out this video:
     
    Buck, Jun 30, 2017
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  2. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    √36
     
    SpeedTchr, Jun 30, 2017
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  3. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Equations? Probabilities? Math? @doctorquant got hard and doesn't know why. Unless that's @RickStain who's hard. I'm not up on my Bayesian.
     
    Songbird, Jun 30, 2017
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  4. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Her nostrils seem to have different diameters.
     
    Vombatus, Jul 1, 2017
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  5. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Would love her to do a video of this about our view of other nations.
     
    BTExpress, Jul 2, 2017
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  6. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    One problem (among many, but this is the main one) with Bayesianism is that it always depends on the choice of a "prior," which makes whatever answer the person employing it comes up with subjective in nature. That doesn't necessarily render it wrong always, but personally, I am way more comfortable with objective measures of things. ... The "subjective" element in bayesian approaches is where it goes wrong in the hands of too many people. The choice of your prior(s) isn't a trivial thing. To even attempt to do it in a meaningful way takes a great deal of work that goes beyond the scope of what most people are capable of.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jul 2, 2017
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  7. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    I know the examples of "prior" always seem subjective, but I don't think they have to be. If you want to say, perhaps, "a left-handed person is more likely to work in the creative arts," we already know the percentage of left-handed people who exist. So that's a prior that isn't as subjective as, say, "let's assume 5 percent of people are drug users."
     
    BTExpress, Jul 2, 2017
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  8. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Rationalism is needed more than ever in this sad, sick world.
    It doesn't help that it has always been conflated with an anti-clerical and anti-religious outlook, as we in these times could also use some evidence of a divine spark.
     
    3_Octave_Fart, Jul 2, 2017
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