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The Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR), is an organisation based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Berkeley, California whose focus is to "() the results of cognitive science research, and turn them into techniques that people can practice and use in their own lives."〔(【引用サイトリンク】Vision )〕 It was created in mid-2012, by Julia Galef a statistician, writer, and prominent figure in the skeptic movement, Anna Salamon, an ex-researcher from NASA and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and two Mathematics PhD holders, Michael Smith and Andrew Critch.〔(【引用サイトリンク】About )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】July 2012 Newsletter )〕 CFAR develops and tests strategies of cognitive tools and triggers that are known from research in the field of cognitive science on how people form and change their beliefs. The organisation runs workshops to train people to internalize and use strategies based on the principles of rationality on a more regular basis to improve their reasoning and decision making skills and achieve goals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Workshops )〕 According to its co-founder and president Julia Galef the term "Applied" refers to a practical version of rationality in which people not only know how to be rational but also understand when being rational makes a difference.〔 Among the exercises taught in the three-day workshops are ''Propagating Urges'' ''Goal Factoring'', ''Pre-Hindsight'', ''Murphyjitsu'' and the ''Inner Simulator''. Galef recommends carrying a surprise journal as a means to confront confirmation bias. Yudkowsky, curriculum consultant at CFAR, claims it "pursues, what () see() as an important common project for the human species, namely taking all humanity's wonderful cognitive science research and trying to translate it into teachable skills for thinking better in real life, doing better in our own lives and the world." While assisting in the initial development of CFAR, he claims that he is now largely "superfluous" in the organization's management. Galef attempts to differentiate CFAR from the self help movement at large, claiming "()elf-help is often not based on research, but on generalizations from something that worked for the author or for a smattering of people. Books are riddled with confirmation bias and selection bias." Whereas CFAR's aims are to use a more rigorous and scientific approach to having accurate beliefs and accomplishing your goals.〔 Galef's activities as a writer, podcaster and president of CFAR are mentioned by the ''The Atlantic'', ''The Verge'', and NPR. ==Media and reception== The Center for Applied Rationality has been featured widely in media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal,〔 Main Street, Fast Company,〔〔 Harper's Magazine, Boing Boing, io9, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and Nerve Magazine. In 2014, Julia Galef wrote several articles and recorded several short videos for Big Think, some of which are part of the Big Think Mentor's workshops. Subsequent to her exposure with Big Think as an expert on the topic of rationality, she was interviewed in 2014 by ''Forbes'', ''Fast Company'',〔 Stefan Schubert writes in the ''The Reasoner'' that ()ith a firm grounding in psychological research they have, using a good deal of ingenuity, developed a number of sophisticated practical techniques to overcome different biases."〔 Max Tegmark and Jaan Tallinn have attended workshops have reported wide-reaching benefits to their life from attending CFAR Workshops.〔 Tallinn now provides scholarships for selected Estonian students to attend the workshops. Anna Salamon presented at the 2014 Effective altruism summit. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Center for Applied Rationality」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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