A common decision making trap is thinking more data = better decision – and so, to make a better decision, you should go out and get more data. Let’s call this the datacentric fallacy. Of course there are times when you don’t have enough information, when having more information (of the right kind) would [...]
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Dangers of Datacentrism
Posted in Business, Critical Thinking, Datacentrism, Decision Making, Research, Thinking on May 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Rationale for Rationale™
Posted in Argument Mapping, Education, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning, Research on July 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Now available – the final version of my paper prepared in connection with the conference Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings in January this year. The paper is now called The Rationale for Rationale™.
How to get going with your thesis
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Reasoning, Research on June 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A new Rationale user working on a PhD thesis emailed the following: I finished my comps in March and have been working to nail down my dissertation topic since. I have too many interests and little discipline so it’s been daunting. Notably, I sat down last week with rationale and decided to map out what [...]
How long does it take to map an argument?
Posted in Argument Mapping, Austhink, Reasoning, Research on May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
At a number of universities around the world, people are now setting up studies to help determine the extent to which argument maps, or Rationale use, can help build skills or improve performance on difficult tasks. One such person asked in an email: “What is the average time for an adult learner to complete the [...]
Rationale – Why does it work? – Usability
Posted in Argument Mapping, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning, Research on April 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As mentioned a few posts ago, I’ve been resisting the temptation to write in this space, due to an academic paper demanding completion. The paper is about Rationale, for a legal journal; here is the “table of contents”: Rationale: A Generic Argument Mapping Tool Introduction 1. Rationale Overview 2. Making Humans Smarter. 2.1 Educational 2.2 [...]
Talk at Victorian Skeptics
Posted in Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Research, Skepticism on February 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Anyone likely to be in Melbourne on Feb 19 is welcome to join the Victorian Skeptics for an informal talk: The abstract is Academic philosophers, like most professionals, think they’re pretty good at what they do. I’ll present some general reasons for scepticism on this score. Then I’ll focus on one particular respect in which [...]
Lots means Lots
Posted in Critical Thinking, Education, Research on December 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
How do you help your students to achieve really worthwhile gains in critical thinking skills? We worked on this problem for about five years at the University of Melbourne. We wanted a method for improving critical thinking skills which demonstrably achieves substantial results. I’ll add now that we wanted a method which reliably acheives these [...]
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