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Who's your target audience and what's the aim of this article?
The target audience is readers who would be interested in science-based self-improvement if it was presented to them - people who have a college education, and who like to read broad venues such as Slate, Salon, Huffington Post, etc. The aim of the article is to convey that our thinking is inherently flawed, but can be improved to be less wrong by using rationality-informed strategies, and to encourage people to use these strategies.
College education ain't what it used to be :-D but reasonably smart people should be suspicious of your article because you're triggering a LOT of bullshit detectors.
The most blatant is your use of the word "science" as the functional equivalent of "revealed Truth". Believe this because science. Um...
Also, passages like "It felt wonderful and liberating to be deeply certain that we could not have done better than we did through applying the principles of probabilistic thinking and other rationality-informed strategies" are pretty cringeworthy.
FYI, I edited the article based on your comments with adding qualifiers and added the title suggested by NancyLebovitz
Thanks for the specific feedback about the sentence, I'll work on revising it.
Regarding science, I'll put in some qualifiers on that, good point!
Ideas on improving the title?
Improve Your Thinking with Science-Based Methods.
Thanks, nice idea! I edited the article based on your comments.
As far as I understand the article's title get's written by the editor anyway, so there not much to gain from thinking hard about the title.
Yup, it does get rewritten, good point!