{"id":97680,"date":"2019-10-21T16:43:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T23:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/why-should-you-always-assume-youre-wrong-science"},"modified":"2019-10-21T16:43:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T23:43:05","slug":"why-should-you-always-assume-youre-wrong-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/why-should-you-always-assume-youre-wrong-science","title":{"rendered":"Why should you always assume you\u2019re wrong? Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why should you always assume you\u2019re wrong? Science. | Big Think\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CsFGxY2Ygvw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Assumptions: The Case Against Reality<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When it comes to scientific theory, (or your personal life) be sure to question everything.<\/p>\n<p>- The theories we build to navigate the world, both scientifically and in our personal lives, all contain assumptions. They\u2019re a critical part of scientific theory.<\/p>\n<p>- Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman urges us to always question those assumptions. In this way, by challenging ourselves, we come to a deeper understanding of the task at hand.<\/p>\n<p>- Historically, humans have come to some of our greatest discoveries by simply questioning assumed information.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/why-should-you-always-assume-youre-wrong-science\">Continue reading \u201cWhy should you always assume you\u2019re wrong? Science\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assumptions: The Case Against Reality When it comes to scientific theory, (or your personal life) be sure to question everything. \u2014 The theories we build to navigate the world, both scientifically and in our personal lives, all contain assumptions. They\u2019re a critical part of scientific theory. \u2014 Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman urges us to always [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,47,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-neuroscience","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}