NancyLebovitz comments on How to teach to magical thinkers? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 24 February 2014 04:04:02PM 2 points [-]

I don't think the problem is magical thinkers, it's probably (as Luke said) that bias has more than one meaning.

It might be worth exploring how you tell when a behavior is a matter of harmless variations in custom and when some behaviors are better than others (identifying when a project is no longer worth pursuing rather than just assuming it should be completed).