>> I don't think you can take any person and teach them to think through problems logically.
That's actually the whole point of scientific training: teaching people to use the tools of science, including thinking logically and avoiding sources of bias and so on.
If you want to go back into antiquity, the ancient Greeks who started the whole Logic thing, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle et al, they never presented logic as some kind of innate ability of human beings, rather they set out to teach it as an instrument of thought that was far from innate. Because if it was innate, it wouldn't need all that work they put into it.
That's actually the whole point of scientific training: teaching people to use the tools of science, including thinking logically and avoiding sources of bias and so on.
If you want to go back into antiquity, the ancient Greeks who started the whole Logic thing, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle et al, they never presented logic as some kind of innate ability of human beings, rather they set out to teach it as an instrument of thought that was far from innate. Because if it was innate, it wouldn't need all that work they put into it.