Isn't this similar to what The Foundation For Critical Thinking talks about in their Thinker's Guide series?

http://www.criticalthinking.org/store/products/set-of-twenty...

If a person is a critical thinker then they are almost always going to be predisposed toward rationality, and if they're not a critical thinker then no amount of rationality training will ever sink in. I suppose I vaguely support the goal of trying to teach people to be more rational, but I'm not sure that starting out by trying to teach people rationality tricks is the correct approach.