Analysis Essay On Evidence By Kathryn Schulz

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In the essay written by Kathryn Schulz titled, “Evidence,” she emphasizes the importance of inductive reasoning in everyday life. In her writing she defines inductive reasoning as, “the capacity to reach very big conclusions based on very little data” (369). In other words, Schulz means that inductive reasoning is basically making assumptions with using some evidence. She also believes that all people use inductive reasoning in everyday life. In her writing she states, “Believing things based on paltry evidence is the engine that drives the entire miraculous machinery of human cognition” (364). Here she is basically saying that inductive reasoning is the reason that all humans think the way they do. Another …show more content…

I have seen this behavior in different people that I have met. One example of a confident bulldozer is my cousin Alex. A few years ago when Alex and my father were painting a car, Alex told my dad that he used to paint cars when he was a teenager and said that he was a good painter. So, my dad let Alex paint the car and it didn’t turn out very well. Once it was done, my dad and his friends were pointing out the imperfections to Alex and telling him that he wasn’t a very good painter after all. Alex insisted that he was still a good painter because all painters leave some imperfections in the paint, and no matter how hard my dad and his friends tried to convince him that good painters don’t actually leave paint like that, he still wouldn’t agree that he had made mistakes. This story shows that Schulz’s evidence of a confident bulldozer is applicable to real life and can be true in some …show more content…

Here in college, it is almost crucial to develop self-subversive thinking skills. Most professors want you to be a self-subversive thinker and question certain concepts to get a better understanding of them. Also, with the wide varieties of students that come from all over the world it is important to be open to their different opinions. Since college is full of deep thinking, different opinions, and different kinds of people, it is important to have the mindset of a self-subversive thinker so that you can get the most out of your college

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