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Effectiviology is a site dedicated to learning about science and philosophy you can use.

If you’re new to the site, here are a few articles you can check out:

If you want to learn about social psychology:

• The backfire effect.
• The spotlight effect.
• The illusion of transparency.

If you want to learn about logical fallacies:

• The guide to logical fallacies.
• Strawman arguments.
• Ad-hominem attacks.

If you want to learn about mental performance:

• The confirmation bias.
• Self-distancing.
• The guide to debiasing.

If you want to learn about practical philosophy:

• Hanlon’s razor.
• Stoicism.
• Sturgeon’s law.

Note that if you want to just get the key takeaway points from each article, you can scroll to the bottom where there is a section called “summary and conclusions”.