Fallibility

Human beings are imperfect, limited creatures – we are liable to make mistakes and to be wrong with decisions and actions. We have to be selective with the distribution of our attention and show a propensity to be selective with what interests us, we also tend to believe what we wish to believe, and there is much that we don’t know.

Even when we take care to make thoughtful, informed judgements there will frequently be others who will disagree with us – the question which should be asked: Is this judgement, belief, or conclusion accurate or well-justified?

(see also:: Five perennial pitfalls, error, erroneous, metacognitive shortfall, belief and bias, experimenter bias, belief bias, correctness, Observer bias, thinking error, Type 1 and Type 2 errors, rational burnout)

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