I see how that might have been confusing. The 1000 years ago was simply an example to question whether people have always made the same thinking errors. The criticalness is based only on recent history, mostly on the people around me and is an attempt to argue in favor of possible external factors.
Well, OK, but still: over whichever period you have in mind, does it seem to you that people are becoming less and less critical, or that they haven’t become steadily less critical?
Regardless, I would agree that some common thinking errors are cultural.
Over the last 1000 years: varying criticalness
Over the last 20-30 years or so: less and less critical
Has there been some research on culturalness of thinking errors? I thought the claim was that these thinking errors are hardwired in the brain, hence timeless and uncultural.
Has there been some research on culturalness of thinking errors?
That would be a part of the whole Nature vs. Nurture debate, wouldn’t it? I think it would be very hard to prove that any given thinking error is biologically hardwired (as opposed to culturally); and even if a bias is biologically hard-wired, an opposing cultural bias might be able to counter that.
Many people are largely exposed to only a single culture; widespread, pervasive errors in that culture would, I expect, be indistinguishable from hardwired biases.
I see how that might have been confusing. The 1000 years ago was simply an example to question whether people have always made the same thinking errors. The criticalness is based only on recent history, mostly on the people around me and is an attempt to argue in favor of possible external factors.
Well, OK, but still: over whichever period you have in mind, does it seem to you that people are becoming less and less critical, or that they haven’t become steadily less critical?
Regardless, I would agree that some common thinking errors are cultural.
Over the last 1000 years: varying criticalness Over the last 20-30 years or so: less and less critical
Has there been some research on culturalness of thinking errors? I thought the claim was that these thinking errors are hardwired in the brain, hence timeless and uncultural.
That would be a part of the whole Nature vs. Nurture debate, wouldn’t it? I think it would be very hard to prove that any given thinking error is biologically hardwired (as opposed to culturally); and even if a bias is biologically hard-wired, an opposing cultural bias might be able to counter that.
Many people are largely exposed to only a single culture; widespread, pervasive errors in that culture would, I expect, be indistinguishable from hardwired biases.