Skeptic Project

Thank you for that. I'd like to think fallibility can be overcome with practice. As a psychologist, I've read several studies indicating the phenomenon of humans misperceiving information. An example from the article is how people can forget where they've heard information. This can result in people thinking they've heard something from multiple people, when in fact they only heard it from one or two sources. Would a mind cultivated to think critically fall less prey to this? I would like to see a study where people who've taken a critical thinking class are compared in their ability to accurately recall information as compared to people who have not taken such a class.

Intention plays a role in this, as well. Today, I try to be as critical as possible. This has lead me to intentionally desiring accurate recall of information. In the past, I may have been lazy and gone with whatever bias I could rely on. For example, if I couldn't remember exactly where I read that Saddam wasn't involved in 911, I would just assume that because we're in Iraq, he had to have played a part. This wouldn't have been based in any intention to be logical, but rather an intention to avoid thinking.