The Center For Applied Rationality (CFAR) checklist is a heuristic for assessing the admissibility of one's own testimony.
Did something get jumbled here? This isn't right at all.
We need not event the wheel, for legal theorists have researched this issue for years, while practitioners and courts have identified heuristics useful to lay people interested in this field.
Grammar aside, the standard legal process and courts are really bad at reaching true conclusions. Taking their practices as wisdom seems likely to be quite bad.
The rules of evidence used by courts are not necessarily intended to establish the truth. There are sometimes other motives which might well be in clear opposition to that. For example, the exclusion of evidence from illegal searches is intended to discourage illegal searches. It is not intended to establish the truth, and in fact the rule obviously impedes the discovery of truth.
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The Center For Applied Rationality (CFAR) checklist is a heuristic for assessing the admissibility of one's own testimony.
What of the challenge of evaluating the testimony of others?
Slapping the label of a bias on a situation?
Arguing at the object level by provision of evidence to the contrary?
This risks Gish Gallop. For those who prefer to pick their battles, I commisioned this post of my time, a structural intervention into the information ecosystem.
We need not event the wheel, for legal theorists have researched this issue for years, while practitioners and courts have identified heuristics useful to lay people interested in this field.
Precedent
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daubert_standard
Further reading on the case is available here on Google Scholar
Practice
How can this be applied in practice?
What is the first principle of skepticism. It's effectively synonymous: 'question'
What question? This isn't the 5 W's of primary school, after all.
I have summarized critical questions to a reading here to get the ball rolling:
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For further reading, I recommend the seminal text in cross-examination which is the 1903 The Art of Cross Examination.
The Full Text is available free here on Project Gutenberg.
Other countries use different standards, such as the Opinion Rule in Australia.