
Scientists are stereotyped as objective thinkers, putting hard facts above our own subjective experience. If you’re being honest though, as a group of people we’re particularly vulnerable to a host of cognitive biases including magical thinking, confirmation bias, etc. Why the maudlin tone??? Well, I challenged my own magical thinking, and it turns out I was wrong. Not just a little wrong, but pretty definitively wrong. Oh well, better to don the dunce cap for one day, than be a dunce forever.
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