So, I saw that there is interest in education in environmental education. For example, I saw evidence here of interventions with tablets that brought benefits. But if the current problem is finding ways to align thinking with life, why don’t I find studies or proposals to educate, from an early age, towards Bayesian rationality?
This reminds me of that thread and discussion therein. Additionally, I don’t think that it’s easy to explain why people should be educated towards Bayesian rationality specifically, and not, say, merely sciences or logic. On the other hand, teaching people to care about the environment has an easy-to-convince effect.
P.S. How could one teach people to reason in Bayesian ways if there is a crisis of basic literacy?
Sorry, I meant to talk about updating beliefs, not necessarily through calculations, but through intuition. I meant something like training reflexes, such as:
So, I saw that there is interest in education in environmental education. For example, I saw evidence here of interventions with tablets that brought benefits. But if the current problem is finding ways to align thinking with life, why don’t I find studies or proposals to educate, from an early age, towards Bayesian rationality?
This reminds me of that thread and discussion therein. Additionally, I don’t think that it’s easy to explain why people should be educated towards Bayesian rationality specifically, and not, say, merely sciences or logic. On the other hand, teaching people to care about the environment has an easy-to-convince effect.
P.S. How could one teach people to reason in Bayesian ways if there is a crisis of basic literacy?
Sorry, I meant to talk about updating beliefs, not necessarily through calculations, but through intuition. I meant something like training reflexes, such as:
predicting before observing;
estimating confidence (“am I 60% or 95% sure?”);
looking for contrary evidence;
gradually updating;