Do you know what heuristics are? You take a complicated target question that you can’t answer, and think of an easier question you can answer which you believe helps you make a good guess for your target question.

Heuristics help us make good guesses but when you use this method to compose an argument you are wasting everyone’s time especially your own.

“Thinking Fast and Slow” is a fantastic book to understand the mind and how we try to predict and interpret data.