by "Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
Published 08/07/2017 at 16:52
by "Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
Published 08/07/2017 at 16:52
Tags: NOT CAR RELATED
STARS: 1
When I was in about sixth grade, we spent over a month on a unit about advertising, propaganda, and how people use media to influence and even control other people.
PWe learned different styles and types of advertising, how to spot and interpret bias in media, and how to look more deeply into what the producers of that media were saying.
This was of course, in my English and social studies classes. This also was about the time that the Communist bloc was starting to fall, right after the Berlin wall went down, and so it was topical at the time. Now, I wonder what happened to those sorts of curricula. That stuff certainly helped me develop my own bullshit detector. I guess critical thinking can’t be measured on a standardized test...
"CB" (jrcb)
08/07/2017 at 16:59, STARS: 3
In my high school social sciences (and university), we learned the CRAPP test. So:
Currency: how recent is this information, and is that relevant to the information?
Relevance: is it related to what you need to know?
Authority: where did it come from?
Accuracy: speaks for itself
Purpose: why does this information exist?
It’s helped me get decently far in life.
"Robert Belvin" (urbankei)
08/07/2017 at 17:00, STARS: 0
Pretty sure critical thinking isn’t taught anymore, at least at the last three schools I went to
"PS9" (PS9)
08/07/2017 at 17:15, STARS: 1
It became inconvenient. We want people to reject everyone else’s propaganda, not ours. They might hold us accountable and vote for other people when we fuck up if we do that.
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
08/07/2017 at 17:15, STARS: 1
I once took one of those “Fill Out Our Survey And Earn $10" things in a mall. Hey, I was broke at the time... why was I even at the mall?
A bunch of us sat in a room with a clipboard, pen and a survey. Basically it asked us if we had to say a certain product performed better than the other, how MUCH better would we say? That products? Lamisil AT, versus Tinactin.
A few months later I saw a commercial for Lamisil AT, saying that IN A STUDY it was found that XX% of people preferred it to Tinactin.
Never trusted anything a commercial said after that.
"Berang" (berang)
08/07/2017 at 19:43, STARS: 0
Do schools even still have science fairs, where kids have to learn to test things to see if they’re true or not? In any event, it doesn’t matter it seems, since it’s the adults who are the ones too stupid to look into anything.