Found this book by The Brain Science podcast host Virginia “Ginger” Campbell, MD, “Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty” and her podcast interviews with Dr. Robert Burton (On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not (2008) full of relevant neuroscience evidence and well-reasoned discussion about this whole topic of scaffolding towards certainty (or not).
Formal learning doesn't often handle uncertainty, as it builds certainty into its courses and content. This is why I abhor the move towards courses in areas with lots of uncertainty, diversity of views , complexity and a range moral and political views. The certainty of courses in DEI, for example, peddle a sort of absolute moral certainty that makes many feel uncomfortable, accused and suspicious. Diversity of thought is now crushed by an orthodoxy that will brook no challenge. Employees are now forced to conform to moral strictures, rather than the simple expectation that they do their jobs well.
Found this book by The Brain Science podcast host Virginia “Ginger” Campbell, MD, “Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty” and her podcast interviews with Dr. Robert Burton (On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not (2008) full of relevant neuroscience evidence and well-reasoned discussion about this whole topic of scaffolding towards certainty (or not).
Formal learning doesn't often handle uncertainty, as it builds certainty into its courses and content. This is why I abhor the move towards courses in areas with lots of uncertainty, diversity of views , complexity and a range moral and political views. The certainty of courses in DEI, for example, peddle a sort of absolute moral certainty that makes many feel uncomfortable, accused and suspicious. Diversity of thought is now crushed by an orthodoxy that will brook no challenge. Employees are now forced to conform to moral strictures, rather than the simple expectation that they do their jobs well.