Maybe I’m a bit of an idealist, but I don’t see any reason that rationality can’t be taught to the average person.
Surely learning the basics of rationality (e.g. use Bayes Theorem) can be learned and applied by everyday folk, if memes like PEMDAS can be learned and remembered by average people (I think I learned PEMDAS in junior high school). I think it just takes changing the education curricula found in most primary education… which is, admittedly, a much harder goal.
I vaguely remember elementary school in the 80s and in history lessons learning how great America is. Imagine if, instead of that sort of education, we learned about cognitive biases (like why we would think America was so great).
Maybe I’m a bit of an idealist, but I don’t see any reason that rationality can’t be taught to the average person.
Surely learning the basics of rationality (e.g. use Bayes Theorem) can be learned and applied by everyday folk, if memes like PEMDAS can be learned and remembered by average people (I think I learned PEMDAS in junior high school). I think it just takes changing the education curricula found in most primary education… which is, admittedly, a much harder goal.
I vaguely remember elementary school in the 80s and in history lessons learning how great America is. Imagine if, instead of that sort of education, we learned about cognitive biases (like why we would think America was so great).