If you had fifteen days to learn calculus well enough to pass a comprehensive exam, starting from scratch, how would you do it? A gut reaction might be to memorize. If you learn everything by rote, you can spit it out on the exam paper, then forget it. But this only works if your exam […]
Are Anti-Vaxxers Rational? More Thoughts on the Power of Copying
My last post sparked some debate when I suggested that trying to think through a rational answer for every practical problem is likely unwise. Duncan Smith comments: This may be good advice for people with the discipline to distinguish between problems that can be solved with a completely rational approach and those that are complex […]
