Sagan scale 🎨
A tool to gauging weather somebody is too skeptical or too open to ideas from.
Specific evidence
Many mechanisms in the world are very specific. If explanations are too "round" or too generic this might mean it's not real. i.e. There is a woman in the State of Washington with large following, who claims to make contact with a 35,000-year-old somebody. Why exactly 35,000 and not 34,365 years ago? Sagan talks about Ramtha in
Bad explanation: Easy to Vary. Good explanation: Hard to Vary from his i.e. Demether myth explanation seasons vs. current one: the earth is tilted 23 degrees and when circling sun (every detail plays a role)
Search of hard to vary explanation is the basis of enlightement.
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Things can have disproportionate effects. Sometimes introducing an a very small of agent can have a really large effect and vice versa – sometimes introducing a vary large agent can have really little effect.
Biases
People who exhibits
Law of the Instrument
People who even are really good at some local area of knowledge that are thinking their expertise transcends the boundaries of the disciplines and it can explain surpassingly high volume of subjects. (Read more on Law of the Instrument here)
Forceful Interpretation
Below is the the image of paths of the planets in the solar system before and after the realization of heliocentrism. Whenever there is a trace of dogmatism in the way people treat ideas it might mean that these ideas might be propagated by a force of preserving position the group hierarchy. Examples:
Mainstream evolutionary biologist fight with a view that there might be a parallel process to natural selection. Would proving that aesthetic selection is true undermine findings and status of majority of experts? Read More: