QualiaSoup made a great video that explores the concept of Open-mindedness.
A look at some of the flawed thinking that prompts people who believe in certain non-scientific concepts to advise others who don’t to be more open-minded.
via Richard Dawkins
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Confusing ignorance for knowledge. Classic engineer mistake. I don’t know == impossible.
Reminds me of the “Mind Projection Fallacy”
http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/prob.as.logic.pdf
This film should be made mandatory viewing in our schools.
I want to elaborate on my last comment. I have a science degree, and studied statistics and probability in high school, and this film touches on some of precise points that bother me the most as I watch the way unscientific attitudes, and distrust and misunderstanding of science and reason, are so pervasive in the US (probably due to our lousy educational system.) In a nation where a person can’t be elected President unless he professes devotion in a mythological being, and more people believe in UFOs than evolution, we desperately need to expose children to the light of reason. This film does that better, and more simply, than anything else I’ve ever seen.
This film should be mandatory viewing for our teachers.