Could You Be Wrong?
We all have beliefs – there’s nothing wrong with that. We also all have prejudices, biases, etc. Not ideal, but that’s the reality. With some appropriate critical thinking, you can keep those at bay....
Category: Critical Thinking
Does Positive Mean What You Think It Means?
When chatting with others, we all understand what someone means when they say positive or negative. Positive usually falls in line with the idea of the “bright side” as in being an optimist and having a positive...
When A Valid Argument Can Be False
“That’s valid,” you say, but what do you mean by that? A single statement can be valid by itself if it is a previously proven “truth”, but what about an argument? You remember arguments,...
Uncertainty and The Simple-Minded
I’ve written in a previous post that reality keeps us from being 100% certain of any “truth”. This is why we have science and its flaming laser sword of falsifiability. But why is this...
Are your patients out of control?
In psychology, a lot of things are described as a continuum: Introvert vs extrovert, optimist vs pessimist, etc. Nobody is purely one or the other, but everyone falls somewhere on the continuum. Also, many...
Understanding Specific and Non-Specific Effects
In episodes of PT Inquest, we have discussed the need to understand the specific effects of an intervention in contrast to the non-specific effects of an intervention. Since understanding the specific effects of a treatment...