60-Second Tech

Episode 4: This Simple Strategy Might Be the Key to Advancing Science Faster


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Science is an iterative process. Progress comes from people coming up with ideas that are sort of right and then new evidence and ideas coming in to update them to become even more correct.

Underlying this process is a willingness by scientists to accept that they might be wrong and be open to updating their ideas.

It turns out that social scientists have a term for this mindset. To find out more, I talked with two researchers who are studying this thing they call “intellectual humility.”

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