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Sep 204 min read
Your Circle of Competence
True experts recognize the limits of what they know and what they do not know. If they find themselves outside their circle of...
Sep 74 min read
You Might Be Wrong About Wikipedia
Summary: Contrary to popular belief, Wikipedia can be used effectively during the research process. Generally speaking, don’t cite and...
Nov 21, 202310 min read
On The Knowledge Machine – What Science is Doing
We’ve all developed at least some loose sense of what science is and what it focuses on. However, these views are often cobbled together...
Apr 26, 20235 min read
How to Learn About Psychology on Your Own
It won't be news to anyone that much of our everyday thinking seeks to address questions about our own and others' thought and behaviour...
Mar 21, 202214 min read
Big & Small: Mistakes in Drawing General Conclusions From Specific Instances
Back in the early 2000s, American actress and TV personality Jenny McCarthy began lending her celebrity to a claim that there is a...
Nov 11, 20218 min read
Social Media and Misinformation From Trusted Sources
“It is so hard to reject an opinion shared by our peers that too often we don’t even try to evaluate claims based on their merits. We let...
Apr 29, 20216 min read
Hanlon's Razor – An Essential Social & Critical Thinking Tool
Have you ever found yourself, without good reason, assuming that someone is out to get you? Perhaps a professor gave you am extremely low...
Jan 15, 202113 min read
A beginner’s guide to citing your sources
This post is part of a series to give students some perspective on citation & referencing. This one's a beginner's guide to citing. If...
Jan 10, 20214 min read
On citation – Part I: A better reason to cite?
This post begins a series that aims to give students some new perspective on citation & referencing. If you're getting started with your...
Mar 21, 20204 min read
Are you sending the right message about COVID-19?
Social media has been one of the major drivers of the human response to COVID-19. It’s been encouraging to see that the dominant...
Mar 15, 20202 min read
Welcome to the Fallible Fox Blog
Hi, I'm Darcy! If you’re not yet acquainted with the Fallible Fox (tFF), it seeks to organize and explore mental and digital tools that...