Thinking Dispositions
I was reading this article in the Psychology section of the New Yorker and it reminded me of how I approach a lot in my life. You collect information, you think it over (sometimes for a long time) and then you make a decision or come to a conclusion. The following quote is evidence to how an Analyst, in my mind, should operate.
“She stressed the importance of collecting conflicting information before making up one’s mind, of calibrating one’s certainty level to the strength of the evidence, of enduring uncertainty for long stretches as an answer became clear, of correcting for one’s biases. As Keith E. Stanovich, a psychologist at the University of Toronto, writes in his book “What Intelligence Tests Miss” (2009), these “thinking dispositions” correlate weakly or not at all with I.Q.” Read more at Social Animal: How the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life
