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RcouF1uZ4gsC 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Never Trust the Science - On the need to identify ...

And if a result is surprising to you, you should trust it less and look into it more deeply.

And if you do so, one of two good outcomes will hopefully happen:

1. You find the result is bogus

2. You learn something new and update your internal model of the world.

thephyber 7 months ago [–]

This ignores a huge blind spot that humans have: confirmation bias.

There is no accurate heuristic which is a good short.

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