The proxy we used in the last LW survey for rationality was whether people are well calibrated in their uncertainty. It might be a lot easier to write an article about how calibrating your uncertainty is beneficial than writing it about an abstract phrase like “rationality”.
I’m writing an essay about how to improve education, and one of my proposals is that a core part of the curriculum should be rationality.
Again what do you mean with rationality. Medical doctors are already taught bayes rule somewhere in their statistics course. They just don’t learn it in a way that allows them to actually use it later when they practice medicine.
The problem is that we don’t have any evidence that we can effectively teach bayes rule to those kinds of people even if we make space in the curriculum.
That makes your proposal for putting rationality into the school curriculum an advocacy of a non evidence-based intervention. That might or might brother you, but it’s something to keep in mind when writing an article and maybe even worth explicitly addressing.
You might start by tabooing rationality.
The proxy we used in the last LW survey for rationality was whether people are well calibrated in their uncertainty. It might be a lot easier to write an article about how calibrating your uncertainty is beneficial than writing it about an abstract phrase like “rationality”.
Again what do you mean with rationality. Medical doctors are already taught bayes rule somewhere in their statistics course. They just don’t learn it in a way that allows them to actually use it later when they practice medicine.
The problem is that we don’t have any evidence that we can effectively teach bayes rule to those kinds of people even if we make space in the curriculum.
That makes your proposal for putting rationality into the school curriculum an advocacy of a non evidence-based intervention. That might or might brother you, but it’s something to keep in mind when writing an article and maybe even worth explicitly addressing.