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Your Circle of Competence
True experts recognize the limits of what they know and what they do not know. If they find themselves outside their circle of...
Sep 20, 20244 min read


You Might Be Wrong About Wikipedia
Summary: Contrary to popular belief, Wikipedia can be used effectively during the research process. Generally speaking, don’t cite and...
Sep 7, 20244 min read


On The Knowledge Machine – What Science is Doing
We’ve all developed at least some loose sense of what science is and what it focuses on. However, these views are often cobbled together...
Nov 21, 202310 min read


How to Learn About Psychology on Your Own
It won't be news to anyone that much of our everyday thinking seeks to address questions about our own and others' thought and behaviour...
Apr 26, 20235 min read


Big & Small: Mistakes in Drawing General Conclusions From Specific Instances
Back in the early 2000s, American actress and TV personality Jenny McCarthy began lending her celebrity to a claim that there is a...
Mar 21, 202214 min read


Social Media and Misinformation From Trusted Sources
“It is so hard to reject an opinion shared by our peers that too often we don’t even try to evaluate claims based on their merits. We let...
Nov 11, 20218 min read


Hanlon's Razor – An Essential Social & Critical Thinking Tool
Have you ever found yourself, without good reason, assuming that someone is out to get you? Perhaps a professor gave you am extremely low...
Apr 29, 20216 min read


A beginner’s guide to citing your sources
This post is part of a series to give students some perspective on citation & referencing. This one's a beginner's guide to citing. If...
Jan 15, 202113 min read


On citation – Part I: A better reason to cite?
This post begins a series that aims to give students some new perspective on citation & referencing. If you're getting started with your...
Jan 10, 20214 min read


Are you sending the right message about COVID-19?
Social media has been one of the major drivers of the human response to COVID-19. It’s been encouraging to see that the dominant...
Mar 21, 20204 min read


Welcome to the Fallible Fox Blog
Hi, I'm Darcy! If you’re not yet acquainted with the Fallible Fox (tFF), it seeks to organize and explore mental and digital tools that...
Mar 15, 20202 min read