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Science vs intuition

...intuition is a crappy tool for understanding the world. System 1 wasn't built for that purpose. It was built for speed. #Intuition can't understand a terrestrial ball. It doesn't expect a caterpillar to turn into a butterfly. It can't help you understand how ice can fall from the sky an hour after the temperature peaked (in Tucson) at 105 F (40 C). It has never seen continents move.

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#ScienceBlogging
#ScientificCommunication
#blaugust2023

https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/scientific-thinking-as-antidote-to.html

Science vs intuition

...intuition is a crappy tool for understanding the world. System 1 wasn't built for that purpose. It was built for speed. #Intuition can't understand a terrestrial ball. It doesn't expect a caterpillar to turn into a butterfly. It can't help you understand how ice can fall from the sky an hour after the temperature peaked (in Tucson) at 105 F (40 C). It has never seen continents move.

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#ScienceBlogging
#ScientificCommunication
#blaugust2023

https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/scientific-thinking-as-antidote-to.html

Science vs intuition

...intuition is a crappy tool for understanding the world. System 1 wasn't built for that purpose. It was built for speed. #Intuition can't understand a terrestrial ball. It doesn't expect a caterpillar to turn into a butterfly. It can't help you understand how ice can fall from the sky an hour after the temperature peaked (in Tucson) at 105 F (40 C). It has never seen continents move.

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#ScienceBlogging
#ScientificCommunication
#blaugust2023

https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/scientific-thinking-as-antidote-to.html

I'm inspired by the #SkyIslands of southern Arizona and northern Sonora. They're literally islands, and a giant laboratory for the study of evolution. The hashtag is in my profile so it's about time I wrote about them! Looking forward to more, and hoping to get directly involved in research somehow. Maybe I can be a volunteer bug collector?

#IslandBiogeography
#blaugust2023
#scienceblogging
#sciencewriting
#tucson
#evolution

https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/sky-islands-one-of-earths-great.html

I'm inspired by the #SkyIslands of southern Arizona and northern Sonora. They're literally islands, and a giant laboratory for the study of evolution. The hashtag is in my profile so it's about time I wrote about them! Looking forward to more, and hoping to get directly involved in research somehow. Maybe I can be a volunteer bug collector?

#IslandBiogeography
#blaugust2023
#scienceblogging
#sciencewriting
#tucson
#evolution

https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/08/sky-islands-one-of-earths-great.html

@imtheq still in its early days (as blog & portfolio) but with a real effort to keep updating

https://www.myscivoice.com/

#SciComm #ScienceLiteracy #Communication #ScienceBlog #ScienceBlogging #SciPortfolio

@imtheq still in its early days (as blog & portfolio) but with a real effort to keep updating

https://www.myscivoice.com/

#SciComm #ScienceLiteracy #Communication #ScienceBlog #ScienceBlogging #SciPortfolio