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...
View ArticleAdmitting 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,...
View ArticleTenets 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,...
View ArticleMotivated 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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