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Did you not find anything odd about that list of beliefs from "the experts"? When even smart people think like that, how do we expect the average person to learn how to think properly?

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Thanks for reading.

And fair point, that list rests on several assumptions. (To be clear, they have a specific conception of belief for their purpose: "... hypotheses about some aspect of the world that come along with the notion of accuracy—either because people examine beliefs’ truth status or because they already have an opinion about the accuracy of the beliefs.")

Of course, not everyone will hold those 'beliefs' to the same extent and they are malleable through experience/upbringing/culture etc. (I'd be interested to see how individualist vs collectivist societies differ in this regard.)

Still, I think (but that's a bias, of course) that the list, though flawed, does capture something of the easy default in how most of us see the world: I/we are right/good.

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> Of course, not everyone will hold those 'beliefs' to the same extent and they are malleable through experience/upbringing/culture etc.

This is what I was getting at: they are stated as True/False booleans. And that's just one problem.

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I’ve always found bias so fascinating — how they’ve lingered around and permanently distorted our thinking without our even realizing half the time. Kudos to you for resisting them!

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Ha, I try, but I'm not sure how successful I am. It's all too easy to lean into it and let system one take the wheel. 😉

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