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Cheat sheet · If you think this is nonsense

Cheat sheet for skeptics.

You can be right that this is wrong and still pass.

Not every hardship is a test, and nothing here is graded.

A woodcut of a man with folded arms and a raised eyebrow standing at a bus stop, quietly holding an umbrella over a stranger's bags in the rain.
  1. Do one costless kindness and watch what it does to you.
    Hold a door, let someone merge, pay a small toll for the car behind you. Then notice, honestly, whether anything changed in you, even nothing.
    Say"Go ahead."
  2. Check the sources yourself.
    Open the evidence page for a sheet and read the papers, not the summary. If a link is wrong or a claim is stretched, you have found something real.
  3. Write down what would change your mind.
    Before you decide, put it on paper: "I would update if I saw ___." A belief that nothing could change is worth a second look, in either direction.
  4. Argue with the strongest version of the claim.
    Not the silliest one. Restate the idea so its defender would say "yes, that's it," then take it apart.
    Say"Is this what you mean?"
  5. Notice your own motivated reasoning.
    Everyone reasons toward the answer they want some of the time, including the author.
    Ask"Would I be this quick to dismiss it if I liked where it leads?"
  6. Tell the author where he is wrong, kindly.
    The site lists a way to send corrections. Be specific: the claim, the page, what the better source says. Say it plainly, without contempt.
  7. Do one thing that is good in any case.
    Help someone who can do nothing for you. It passes whether the idea is true, false or meaningless.

The evidence behind this sheet

Researchers have studied how people judge claims, how forecasters get more accurate, and whether small kind acts lift the giver. The findings are modest, some have been challenged, and none of them shows that this site's idea is true.

Intellectual humility and openness to the opposing viewPeople with higher intellectual humility were more willing to learn about the other side's views, and priming a growth mindset increased intellectual humility and, in turn, openness to opposing views.study · Self and Identity (Porter and Schumann, 2018)Identifying and Cultivating Superforecasters as a Method of Improving Probabilistic PredictionsIn U.S. intelligence forecasting tournaments, the top performers stayed highly accurate across hundreds of questions, and the authors describe superforecasters as partly discovered and partly created.study · Perspectives on Psychological Science (Mellers and colleagues, 2015)Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical ConclusionsA reanalysis of the same tournament data found that, once extraneous variables were controlled, the benefits of teaming and training shrank and in some cases reversed.skeptical · Psychological Science (Hauenstein and colleagues, 2025)Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actorAcross 27 studies with 4,045 participants, performing kind acts had a small-to-medium effect on the giver's well-being (delta 0.28).review · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (Curry and colleagues, 2018), via Oxford University Research ArchiveNo association between numerical ability and politically motivated reasoning in a large US probability sampleIn a sample of 2,355 U.S. adults, identity alignment still affected accuracy, but the earlier finding that more numerate people are more politically biased did not replicate.skeptical · PNAS (Stagnaro, Tappin, and Rand, 2023), via PubMed CentralReply to Ledgerwood: Predictions without analysis plans are inertThe authors argue that a prediction needs a written analysis plan before it can count as a real test of a theory.official · PNAS (Nosek, Ebersole, DeHaven, and Mellor, 2018), via PubMed Central
Where the evidence is thin. Intellectual humility is mostly measured by self-report, the forecasting results have been reanalyzed with weaker conclusions, and the kindness effect is small and measured over short periods. These sheets do not claim that doubting, or not doubting, this site's idea makes you a better or worse person.
If you only do one thing this week
This week: one costless kindness, one source checked, one thing written down that would change your mind.

You are not asked to believe anything here. The site calls its idea a hypothesis, and its own limits are listed on the evidence page.

This is practical, not religious. I think what you show with your choices is what counts. Share it freely.

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