Advice For Effective Analytical Reasoning

Edward Tufte:

"Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong." John W. Tukey

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman

Ask questions.

Develop and fine-tune a sense of the relevant, both for identifying the key leverage points in any problem and also for examining large amounts of information to find the rare diamonds in the sand.

Nearly all serious analysis requires multivariate-thinking, comparison-thinking, and causal-thinking. Develop such thinking.