Rosettes and Revelations Pt.1: The Holy City - Koen Gheuens and Cary Rapaport

[Mark Knowles]

So rather than encouraging people to engage in this activity, I'd rather tell them to be wary.

I think people should always be wary and the more conscious that they are of the possibility of confirmation bias in their theory and the more prepared to be introspective in asking themselves if they are guilty of confirmation bias the better.

However, I think they also need to be prepared to be bold in advancing new theories and following their theory through to their conclusions and implications. There is always the risk of loss of face in sticking one's neck out in advancing a theory, but we need theories and so we need them to be put forward so that they can be analysed.