Retrospectively, I see that many of my past predictive errors came from repeatedly dismissing weak arguments against a claim by using a relatively strong argument as a point of comparison, without realizing that I was doing it repeatedly, and ignoring an accumulation of evidence against the claim, just because no single piece of evidence against it appeared to be stronger than the strongest piece of evidence for it.
If you’d like to correspond by email, I’ll say a little more, though not so much as to compromise the identities of the people involved. You can reach me at jsinick@gmail.com
The examples are quite personal in nature.
Retrospectively, I see that many of my past predictive errors came from repeatedly dismissing weak arguments against a claim by using a relatively strong argument as a point of comparison, without realizing that I was doing it repeatedly, and ignoring an accumulation of evidence against the claim, just because no single piece of evidence against it appeared to be stronger than the strongest piece of evidence for it.
If you’d like to correspond by email, I’ll say a little more, though not so much as to compromise the identities of the people involved. You can reach me at jsinick@gmail.com