One problem with this is that we are not perfectly rational beings.
If you don’t think you have enough evidence yet to form an opinion on something, it may be better to hold off and not form an opinion yet. Because once you form an opinion, it will inherently bias the way you precieve new information you get, and even the most rational of us tend to be biased towards wanting to think that our current opinion is already right.
One correlary is that even when you don’t have enough evidence to form an opinion, you can create and start to test a hypothesis for yourself without actually deciding (even in secret) that it is “your opinion”. That way you can get the advantages you are talking about without precomittimg yourself to something that might bias you.
One problem with this is that we are not perfectly rational beings.
If you don’t think you have enough evidence yet to form an opinion on something, it may be better to hold off and not form an opinion yet. Because once you form an opinion, it will inherently bias the way you precieve new information you get, and even the most rational of us tend to be biased towards wanting to think that our current opinion is already right.
One correlary is that even when you don’t have enough evidence to form an opinion, you can create and start to test a hypothesis for yourself without actually deciding (even in secret) that it is “your opinion”. That way you can get the advantages you are talking about without precomittimg yourself to something that might bias you.