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Stuart Ritchie's mental models

2 claims Stuart Ritchie made fit 2 mental models. Most often: Cognitive biases, The map is not the territory. Everything they said here.

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Cognitive biases

Your mind jumps to conclusions and defends them; look for the evidence against you and use checklists.

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Deciding your conclusion before you look at the data is one of the most reality-distorting things a scientist can do.

  1. Stuart Ritchie Psychologist, formerly a lecturer at King's College London Having a pre-existing conclusion—a “take-home message”—in mind is one of the most reality-distorting influences on our thinking. Science isn't storytellingsciencefictions.org · 27 Dec 2022All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsHaving a pre-existing conclusion—a “take-home message”—in mind is one of the most reality-distorting influences on our thinking.

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    27 Dec 2022

The map is not the territory

Every model, word or plan is a simplified map of reality; useful when its structure matches, misleading when mistaken for the thing itself.

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Compressing a piece of research into a journal paper's word count is itself a distortion of what was found.

  1. Stuart Ritchie Psychologist, formerly a lecturer at King's College London The mere act of squeezing a complex process into a few thousand words—limited by a journal-imposed word count—is itself a distortion of reality. Science isn't storytellingsciencefictions.org · 27 Dec 2022All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsThe mere act of squeezing a complex process into a few thousand words—limited by a journal-imposed word count—is itself a distortion of reality.

    ↗Science isn't storytellingsciencefictions.org

    27 Dec 2022