## [EDU] Dysrationalia: The Thinking that IQ Tests Miss (X-post from truereddit)

* Author: u/Calsem *
* URL: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rational-and-irrational-thought-the-thinking-that-iq-tests-miss/
* Score: 19

* Created: 2014-12-28T19:08:05

### Post:

[Link to content](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rational-and-irrational-thought-the-thinking-that-iq-tests-miss/)

### Comments:

> **u/lawnmowerlatte** [+5]  (9 hours later)
> 
> Anyone know some good resources for training this type of critical thinking?

>> **u/Calsem** [+3]  (11 hours later)
>> 
>> you could try look through [this thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2qm34x/serious_whats_the_most_useful_course_i_can_take/), it might have some useful resources.

>> **u/rumblestiltsken** [+3]  (a day later)
>> 
>> [Think101x](https://www.youtube.com/user/xTHINK101/videos) is a good MOOC from University of Queensland, the videos are up on youtube.
>> 
>> If you have done previous rationality stuff it could be a bit basic, but there are lots of interviews with really big names in the rationality game. Daniel Kahneman talks about type 1 and type 2 thinking, for example.

>> **u/xamueljones** [+2]  *My arch-enemy is entropy* (10 hours later)
>> 
>> Most of the questions related to concepts from the statistics classes I took in college, so I'd recommend learning some general statistics and reading how scientists test their hypothesizes through falsification and similar tests.
>> 
>> I apologize that I don't have any handy links to material for you to read up on, but I picked up most of the concepts in the article by applying my college education to the research papers I'm required to read.

>> **u/None** [+2]  (a day later)
>> 
>> I don't know how effective it is, but there's an app called the [Credence Calibration game](http://rationality.org/calibration/) that's built to train one aspect of rationality. As far as I know, there aren't yet broader programs for developing all of these skills.
>> 
>> The same site has a section with [book recommendations](http://rationality.org/reading/). You may find some of them helpful.

> **u/GrtWhite** [+1]  (2 days later)
> 
> I just read this article (found on an email outside reddit) and i found it mighty interesting.

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