{"id":924,"date":"2011-01-05T02:57:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T09:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2011-01-05T02:57:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T09:57:14","slug":"need-a-mental-tuneup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/05\/need-a-mental-tuneup\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a mental tuneup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/843\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"XKCD on Misconceptions\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/misconceptions.png\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"295\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you get for somebody who thinks they know everything? A dose of realism! Here are a few useful links to get started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_common_misconceptions\">The List of Common Misconceptions<\/a>: People do not use only ten percent of their brains, and Vikings didn&#8217;t wear horns on their hats.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_misquotations\">The List of Common Misquotations<\/a>: Al Gore never said he invented the Internet, and Sarah Palin never said she could see Russia from her house.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_cognitive_biases\">The List of Cognitive Biases<\/a>: Checking to see if you&#8217;re right doesn&#8217;t help, and ignoring evidence that you&#8217;re wrong doesn&#8217;t either.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_fallacies\">The List of Fallacies<\/a>: Authority doesn&#8217;t make an argument good &#8230; and your opponent&#8217;s big nose doesn&#8217;t make their argument bad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow the links, then follow more of them. Lots of good stuff in there &#8211; I sure found holes in what I thought I knew.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get for somebody who thinks they know everything? A dose of realism! Here are a few useful links to get started: The List of Common Misconceptions: People&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,68],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hard-science","tag-the-holy-roman-empire","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}