Evidence In Kathryn Schulz's Evidence

The act of actively combating our inductive bias in Kathryn Schulz’s Evidence in Kathryn Schulz’s essay, “Evidence”, the argument of the essay follows various situations brought up by Schulz, showing that people should take a positive approach to being wrong, and accept our error-prone nature, rather than obsessing with a perfect inadvertently-free ideal. Schulz ties together a lot of strong evidence, but fades back from a clear conclusion, steering the readers toward a relationship between error and the self. She further studies moral transformation on conversations, our attachment to a view wrongly identified due to our pre-conceived opinion off prior experience. Schulz stresses that in order for us to improve our relationship with to evidence, …show more content…
While I was reading Schulz’s essay, what came up to mind was about a scenario I had in one of my classes for my major. In class, my professor told us to get into groups and talk about what answers we got from an in-class assignment assigned earlier. When we assembled into our groups, I was going over answers that I had on my paper and briefly explained on how I got that answer with so much confidence. As I was doing this, my group members looked at each other kind of strangely and scratching their heads as they told me that most of my responses were very different from what they had. When they told me their logics and reasoning, I soon realized that my answers were completely off guard. In that moment, I felt as if I was running on a cliff to only find out that I was standing in mid-air and just plummeted down to the ground. I was just so confident in my results that I didn’t even notice what outcome was going to be. Luckily for me, my groupmates all understood where I was coming from because they all have been there and experienced my situation and learned from it. That’s when I realized that it’s okay to be wrong and not be scared because it’ll actually help you gain more knowledge than anything else you could’ve ever …show more content…
At a moment when economic, political, and religious dogmatism increasingly divide us, Schulz explores the seduction of certainty and the crisis occasioned by error with uncommon humor and eloquence. Kathryn Schulz really does go the extra mile when telling us that being wrong is okay. There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s just human nature. We’re never going to be perfect so we need to get rid of the stigma of always wanting to be a natural. Everybody messes up here and