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nickpsecurityyesterday at 6:04 PM1 replyview on HN

It's specific segments of people saying we can't trust eyewitness claims. They actually work well enough that we run on them from childhood to adulthood. Accepting that truth is the first step.

Next, we need to understand why that is, which should be trusted, and which can't be. Also, what methods to use in what contexts. We need to develop education for people about how humanity actually works. We can improve steadily over time.

On my end, I've been collecting resources that might be helpful. That includes Christ-centered theology with real-world application, philosophies of knowledge with guides on each one, differences between real vs organized science, biological impact on these, dealing with media bias (eg AllSides), worldview analyses, critical thinking (logic), statistical analyses (esp error spotting), writing correct code, and so on.

One day, I might try to put it together into a series that equips people to navigate all of this stuff. For right now, I'm using it as a refresher to improve my own abilities ahead of entering the Data Science field.


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essephyesterday at 6:55 PM

> It's specific segments of people saying we can't trust eyewitness claims.

Scientists that have studied this over long periods of times and diverse population groups?

I've done this firsthand - remembered an event a particular way only to see video (in the old days, before easy video editing) and find out it... didn't quite happen as I remembered.

That's because human beings aren't video recorders. We're encoding emotions into sensor data, and get blinded by things like Weapon Focus and Selective Attention.

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