A lot of my comments here are correcting/supplementing/answering someone else's comment. Reflecting on how I think the typical sequence goes, it might be something like
and so it's hard to say how long it takes me to "mostly know what I am going to say". I often have a vague outline of what I ought to say within 10 or 20 seconds of noticing my feeling that Something's Wrong, but it can easily take me 10 or 20 minutes to actually decide what I'm going to say. For instance, when I read this comment, I immediately thought, "I don't think that can be right; Russia's a violent country and some wars are small", but it took me a while (maybe an hour?) to put that into specific words, and decide which sources to link.
Edit to add: I agree that pattern recognition plays an important part in this. A big part of expertise, I reckon, is just planting hundreds & hundreds of pattern-recognition rules into your brain so when you see certain errors or fallacies you intuitively recognize them without conscious effort.
I am somewhat afraid then, that reading about fallacies won't change my ability to recognize them significantly. Perhaps 'rationality training' should really focus on the editing part, not on the recognizing part. I'll add another question.
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