{"id":7670,"date":"2013-01-11T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7670"},"modified":"2013-01-12T13:20:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T18:20:42","slug":"half-of-what-we-think-we-know-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/half-of-what-we-think-we-know-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Of What We Think We Know Is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.careerrocketeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thought-Leadership.png\" width=\"501\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/159184472X\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=centives-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=159184472X&amp;adid=1DRTE3SDN8DD9JJ4HZD7&amp;\">The Half-Life of Facts<\/a> Samuel Arabson argues that 50% of what we know is wrong. Ronald Bailey found out what he was talking about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Science is always changing. It is estimated that scientific knowledge grows at a rate of 4.7% a year.<\/li>\n<li>Yet we don&#8217;t stay updated with the latest facts. Research suggests that the half-life of truth is 45 years. This means that half of what we learn now will be proven wrong 45 years later.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover a lot of the things we learn are wrong. Several biases in science lead us to read &#8216;facts&#8217; that are anything but.<\/li>\n<li>And of the facts that we are exposed to, we are likely to selectively accept the facts that already fit into our worldview, ignoring those that prove us wrong.<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps the solution is that we should forget all facts. After all that&#8217;s what the internet is for. Every time we need a fact we could just look it up on Wikipedia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To find out how you can protect yourself from believing things that are wrong, as well as why a lot of published science has little factual basis behind it click <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/12\/24\/half-the-facts-you-know-are-probably-wro\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/12\/24\/half-the-facts-you-know-are-probably-wro\">Reason<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/12\/24\/half-the-facts-you-know-are-probably-wro\">Newmark&#8217;s Door<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Half-Life of Facts Samuel Arabson argues that 50% of what we know is wrong. Ronald Bailey found out what he was talking about: Science is always changing. It is estimated that scientific knowledge grows at a rate of 4.7% a year. Yet we don&#8217;t stay updated with the latest facts. Research suggests that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Thought-Leadership1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7670"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7703,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions\/7703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}