nitpick:”I still would error on the side of”, err not error
Corrected.
but isn’t it quite easy to see when thinking has gone on for ‘too long’ without benefit?
I suspect that in most cases you will be right. However, I know a woman in my street who is convinced that she’s empath and can, quite literally, sense people emotions (in the telepathic kind of way, not the body language kind). The first time I met here I tried (naively maybe) to convince her that her ability is impossible. I told her of confirmation bias, unconscious cold reading, that the senses are not completely reliable and so on. It didn’t help. At this point, she is so invested in it that she will reject anything that denies her ability.
My point is that if she would have taken the time to discuss this with people (or at least read up on counter arguments on her own) it’s possible she wouldn’t believe in it now.
Corrected.
I suspect that in most cases you will be right. However, I know a woman in my street who is convinced that she’s empath and can, quite literally, sense people emotions (in the telepathic kind of way, not the body language kind). The first time I met here I tried (naively maybe) to convince her that her ability is impossible. I told her of confirmation bias, unconscious cold reading, that the senses are not completely reliable and so on. It didn’t help. At this point, she is so invested in it that she will reject anything that denies her ability.
My point is that if she would have taken the time to discuss this with people (or at least read up on counter arguments on her own) it’s possible she wouldn’t believe in it now.