On 09/18/2015 11:05 AM, rjensen@ualberta.ca wrote:
What's wrong with being wrong?
The question answers itself.
One might also ask, what's the advantage of being Wrong?
You learn from it.
That's not an advantage, because you can learn just as
much without being wrong.
I'll say it one more time: You should consider *all*
the plausible scenarios. Then you don't have to guess,
and you don't have to be Wrong.
That's the technical argument.
The pedagogical / psychological argument is also important:
A lot of people have a visceral aversion to being Wrong.
If you teach them how to be scientific *without* being
Wrong all the time, they're going to like you better, and
like science better.