[fantasticshower]

I don't know you but I think you have categorized me as one of "them" (people who don't think critically) and have been arguing with me from that perspective.

I think you have a rigid idea of what the right idea is with investing and there's some resistance to anything that might challenge that. I understand why you'd feel that way. There's comfort in believing your filter and your method for gaining understanding of this complex world is totally correct. I find myself thinking that way sometimes too!

[Zetice]

You're close, but meaningfully off (unsurprisingly).

I have categorized you as someone who has a substantially inflated sense of their capabilities, but when faced with any kind of challenge to that belief they wilt magnificently, usually in the form of, "That's just your opinion."

You discount the concept of bias as inapplicable to you for some reason, which more or less renders you incapable of meaningful critical analysis, yet you falsely think whatever remaining machinations you're capable of are useful.

You're trying to fly without any wings, declaring that you falling on your ass counts, and then refusing to even acknowledge the existence of gravity when its pointed out to you.

I may be entirely wrong about how personal finance works, this is possible and fine with me. What I'm not wrong about however, is your behavior. It's fundamentally and profoundly broken, if its purpose is to accurately predict future outcomes such as you claim it is.

[fantasticshower]

It is your opinion that your filters and methods for discerning truth or value are correct. But you think they are the method. We disagree about the methods obviously.

Because we disagree you think there's something wrong with my critical thinking and that I'm unaware of biases. But are you aware of your own?

Typically what we criticize in others is what we fear about ourselves.