Feynman Technique and Evaluating Information
https://fs.blog/feynman-learning-technique/
Evaluating Expertise or Making Conclusions
https://fs.blog/evaluating-information/
Learnings:
To discern a bullshitter (someone who appears to know a lot) from one who actually knows a lot, you can:
- Ask a hard honest question, like a naive child's question, and see if a person gets stumped. And if they admit to being stuck, they can extricate themselves from being a bullshitter by how they handle the situation. If they display humility, then their integrity belongs to the class of wisdom.
- Use Grey Thinking, or think in probabilities, not certainties
- Feynman’s third trick is the realization that as we investigate whether something is true or not, new evidence and new methods of experimentation should show the effect of getting stronger and stronger, not weaker.
- Ask “Is this actually the case?” and not “Could this be the case?”
- The fifth trick is not using the same data that gave you the clue to make the conclusion.
- The sixth trick is the plural of anecdote is not data
- Many errors come from a lack of information
