Comments on: An Exploration of Open-Mindedness http://laughingsquid.com/an-exploration-of-open-mindedness/ an online resource for art, culture and technology Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:49:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Aaron Cody http://laughingsquid.com/an-exploration-of-open-mindedness/comment-page-1/#comment-592737 Aaron Cody Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:16:52 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/?p=21445#comment-592737 This film should be mandatory viewing for our teachers. This film should be mandatory viewing for our teachers.

]]> By: Mike Kupietz http://laughingsquid.com/an-exploration-of-open-mindedness/comment-page-1/#comment-592730 Mike Kupietz Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:58:05 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/?p=21445#comment-592730 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. 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.

]]> By: Mike Kupietz http://laughingsquid.com/an-exploration-of-open-mindedness/comment-page-1/#comment-592725 Mike Kupietz Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:36:16 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/?p=21445#comment-592725 This film should be made mandatory viewing in our schools. This film should be made mandatory viewing in our schools.

]]> By: Jonathan Fischoff http://laughingsquid.com/an-exploration-of-open-mindedness/comment-page-1/#comment-592381 Jonathan Fischoff Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:53:54 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/?p=21445#comment-592381 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 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

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