I've always been a pretty skeptical person. I don't generally believe things people say, and I'm not very gullible. I'm not saying that I don't believe anything at all, or that I think people are constantly lying, but in society people take shortcuts in order to get ahead, and other people pay the price. I don't know about you, but I would prefer not to be one of those people. In all honesty, I couldn't afford it.
The fact that our book emphasizes the six scientific principles of thinking--Rival hypotheses, correlation/causation, falsifiability, replicability, extraordinary claims, and Occam's Razor--makes me feel a lot better about my skepticism, as well as give me ways to evaluate things I may or may not believe. The six principles give me a way to evaluate the world and organize the unknown. I can briefly challenge new concepts, and accept them for what they are or take them with a grain of salt. While I'm certain that many of the things we've covered in PSY 1001 will stick with me throughout life, I can use the six principles every day.
Yes, I agree with you. I am able to use those everyday when I'm talking with others or even listening to the news. I remember when we first began to learn those. I had a lot of trouble identifying esch one. Your post was very simple and to the point. Thank you.
I agree that the six principles of thinking really helps. Especially the correlation/causation is very good one that we have to think about whenever we straightly go to the assumption without really thinking about the correlation. I'm a very gullible person and easily get an assumption that something happened because of a certain thing. So for me, the section that discussed about the correlation and causation really helped me to not do it again.
I agree with your idea!
After learning six principles of thinking,I became so skeptical person. Before learning those principles, I just believed what others are talking without any skepticism. However, after learning that, I tried to find out whether what other's saying is logical or scientific or not.
Sometimes, it is so annoying to have proper conversation, but I feel like I learned and studied psy1001 properly!