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Delighted to have Greg contribute to the conversation.  Among the things that struck me, picking up on Ingrid, was the need to have a session on "inquiry skills."  There are methodological practices that have developed in science (among other places) that it would be useful to talk about more generally.  Among them:

• distinguishing observations from interpretations
• more and less effective interpretations
• using interpretations to motivate effective new questions/observations
• recognizing that interpretations influence observations
• understanding that randomness plays a role in observations
• isolating causal factors
• recognizing that correlation is not equal to causality
• recognizing the difference between observations implying necessity and those implying sufficiency

Maybe a session for a future institute?