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Engineering Skepticism

Skeptic, as a word, has had a lot of different definitions and connotations in the past years and most of them become perjorative in the eyes of non-skeptics who seem to equate skeptic with cynic.  The...

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Admitting you’re wrong

A good engineer, like a good scientist, must at some point admit that he is wrong.  This is very difficult to do — especially for mid- and late-career engineers who are a bit set in their ways.  It is,...

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Storm

Tim Minchin is simply brilliant.

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Tenets of Engineering Skepticism

A couple of my old posts talked about engineering skepticism (here).  I’ve been thinking more about it and came up with the following four tenets of ES.  These would be used first to test a claim,...

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Motivated Reasoning

Motivated reasoning is one of the easiest traps for an engineer to fall into.  This pleasantly oxymoronic term can be considered as an extreme case of confirmation bias. So what is it?  I see motivated...

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Science March

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