Falling for falsehoods - a diet for prevention
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-Good read on fake news...
-Good local example on "Green Delights" and the international example on vaccines
-Note also the part on heuristics which explains why we merely 'browse' instead of really 'read' online, accounting for why the internet is blamed for our lack of critical thinking.....
-If u r 'O' lvl, check out the catchy title using alliteration....
The reach of social media was once lauded for facilitating prominent social movements such as the Arab Spring uprisings against oppression, that spread across North Africa and the Middle East in late 2010.
Once people believe something, they tend to persist in this belief, despite evidence to the contrary....we interpret contrary evidence to favour ideologies or the consensus of groups we closely identify with, and unquestioningly accept claims cohering with our world view.
A study of 750 Singapore citizens and permanent residents conducted by market research firm Ipsos in 2017 revealed that eight out of 10 respondents here were confident of sifting fact from fiction, although 90 per cent of them actually believed at least one of five false news headlines presented to them.
the anti-vaccination movement persists in the face of well-established evidence documenting the safety of vaccines because of mistrust fuelled by political, cultural and religious divides.
When completing routine and intuitive tasks, we often rely on heuristics - mental shortcuts, or "rules of thumb" - that allow us to complete those tasks without expending too much mental effort...One such routine task is browsing social media. Research at Columbia University found that most links shared and commented on, on social media, are never clicked. This implies that article highlights and previews, along with their associated comments, are often read while their body text is ignored. False information often possesses unverified, exaggerated and controversial claims that prey on our frequent use of heuristics and the instinctively lazy brain's preference for quick, easy conclusions.
IF can't access above link, click HERE
-Good read on fake news...
-Good local example on "Green Delights" and the international example on vaccines
-Note also the part on heuristics which explains why we merely 'browse' instead of really 'read' online, accounting for why the internet is blamed for our lack of critical thinking.....
-If u r 'O' lvl, check out the catchy title using alliteration....
The reach of social media was once lauded for facilitating prominent social movements such as the Arab Spring uprisings against oppression, that spread across North Africa and the Middle East in late 2010.
Once people believe something, they tend to persist in this belief, despite evidence to the contrary....we interpret contrary evidence to favour ideologies or the consensus of groups we closely identify with, and unquestioningly accept claims cohering with our world view.
A study of 750 Singapore citizens and permanent residents conducted by market research firm Ipsos in 2017 revealed that eight out of 10 respondents here were confident of sifting fact from fiction, although 90 per cent of them actually believed at least one of five false news headlines presented to them.
the anti-vaccination movement persists in the face of well-established evidence documenting the safety of vaccines because of mistrust fuelled by political, cultural and religious divides.
When completing routine and intuitive tasks, we often rely on heuristics - mental shortcuts, or "rules of thumb" - that allow us to complete those tasks without expending too much mental effort...One such routine task is browsing social media. Research at Columbia University found that most links shared and commented on, on social media, are never clicked. This implies that article highlights and previews, along with their associated comments, are often read while their body text is ignored. False information often possesses unverified, exaggerated and controversial claims that prey on our frequent use of heuristics and the instinctively lazy brain's preference for quick, easy conclusions.
Qn: To
what extent has technology had a negative impact on the skill levels of people? (Cam. 2010)
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