Intellectual Humility & the importance of knowing you might be wrong

[GordMay]

We’ve seen some very high-profile examples, lately, of how overconfident leadership can lead to ruinous outcomes.

Julia Rohrer (et al) wants to create a radical new culture for social scientists. A personality psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Rohrer is trying to get her peers to publicly, willingly admit it when they are wrong.

To do this, she, along with some colleagues, started up something called the Loss of Confidence Project. It’s designed to be an academic safe space for researchers to declare for all to see that they no longer believe in the accuracy of one of their previous findings. The effort recently yielded a paper that includes six admissions of no confidence. And it’s accepting submissions until January 31.

Loss-of-Confidence Project ➥ https://lossofconfidence.com/

Putting the Self in Self-Correction
“Scientific self-correction is often construed as an outcome of the activities of the community as a whole. In contrast, cases in which researchers publicly point out errors in their own studies are rare and deemed unusual. Here, we argue that such individual self-corrections would be beneficial for the scientific community. In an online project, we invited researchers to submit statements describing how they have lost confidence in a finding they had previously published...”
More ➥ https://psyarxiv.com/exmb2

[moctrams]

This is off topic. Keep politics out of this forum.

[heron237]

Originally Posted by moctrams

This is off topic. Keep politics out of this forum.

au contraire fellow sailor, what could be more important to us and our progeny than the very viability of our waters!

[LakeSuperior]

Darn, I wanted to see all the climate change research papers that would be posted.

[SV THIRD DAY]

Originally Posted by LakeSuperior

Darn, I wanted to see all the climate change research papers that would be posted.

Ha ha ha....
If I said that I'd get a visit to chat room jail again for being offensive....

[Lake-Effect]

Originally Posted by SV THIRD DAY

Ha ha ha....
If I said that I'd get a visit to chat room jail again for being offensive....

You wouldn't have said just that though.

[AndyEss]

Originally Posted by SV THIRD DAY

Ha ha ha....
If I said that I'd get a visit to chat room jail again for being offensive....

You are only offensive when you keep on insisting on eating street fish tacos

[LoudMusic]

Originally Posted by AndyEss

You are only offensive when you keep on insisting on eating street fish tacos

What's a street fish? And why would you put it into tacos?

[Pete17C]

Originally Posted by LoudMusic

What's a street fish? And why would you put it into tacos?

A1: it's a fish you found on the street
A2: what else are you going to do with it?

[ShellBack89]

Originally Posted by LakeSuperior

Darn, I wanted to see all the climate change research papers that would be posted.

Originally Posted by Suijin

This issue has become endemic across all the sciences, driven by the pressure to publish, to get grant money, and for general recognition within the field. Fortunately, a lot of journals are taking a hard look at what they are publishing and working to address how they evaluate submissions.

Hmmm....I think it depends if the science falls in line with the journalist political views, rather than a hard look it turns into a soft glance.

[Eigenvector]

Originally Posted by LakeSuperior

Darn, I wanted to see all the climate change research papers that would be posted.

Is climate change real? Yes1

1 Eigenvector, PhD- January 2019, Cruisersforum.com




Couldn't Resist...........

[cyan]

In a thread about intellectual humility, there is a member named Eigenvector.

(nerds unite!)

[Eigenvector]

Originally Posted by cyan

In a thread about intellectual humility, there is a member named Eigenvector.

(nerds unite!)

I will counter with: In a thread about intellectual humility there is a member that knows what an eigenvector is?

[boatman61]

Linear algebra..
I was crap with basic.. But Google is my Friend.

[atoll]

the earth really is flat,members from all around the world can agree on this.......