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Last post 2 years ago by bgz. 3 replies replies.
Interesting concept.
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https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/have-we-entered-age-immoronic
Gene363 Offline
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Interesting indeed, in particular, "...more concerned with content relevance than with credibility..." I have often said people lack critical thinking skills.

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“If American citizens are to have any chance of speaking truth to power, they will need to have a better handle on the truth part. They will need to be better educated, and the science classroom will have to be political-not in the partisan sense, but in the sense of the Greek word politikos: of, for, or relating to citizens. The science classroom will need to prepare them for engagement in our democratic society, to make choices that affect their lives and their communities.” 19

More broadly, we need to teach our children at an early age how to sort through and analyze the reams of information-and misinformation-with which they are bombarded every day. In one study by educational psychologist Dr Julie Coiro and colleagues,20 70% of middle school students were found to be ill-equipped to evaluate online information. The study found that these students are more concerned with content relevance than with credibility; rarely attend to source features such as author, venue, or publication type to evaluate reliability and author perspective; and when they do refer to source features, “. . . their judgments are often vague, superficial, and lacking in reasoned justification.”
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Gene363 wrote:
I have often said people lack critical thinking skills.



You mean you didn't get on the Q short bus?

Good for you!
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