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Posted On: 04/14/2020 1:44:56 PM
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What we really love is simplistic nonsense that falls apart, yep, as soon as you begin asking questions about what you're viewing.
No one disputes that as children we pretty much believe what we're being told until.....the age of reason kicks in. Shortly thereafter go Santa, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy..
'If they were deceiving you, would you be able to recognize that?'
Pretty much, IF. If you went to a decent HS and took the usual college prep science, literature and history courses.
Even without college you should have at the very least acquired critical thinking skills that WOULD enable you to better understand the physical world AND more reliably discern shit from shinola.
If you were fortunate enough to attend college you would polish and sharpen those same skills. And you would then be far less helpless than otherwise in discerning fact from fiction, fact from opinion, fact from propaganda, science from junk science, association from causation and logical explanations from conspiracy theories.
Note, I said 'far less helpless'. Everybody can be fooled/deceived to some extent. All you can strive for is to reduce the extent. Strive, that's what learning is all about.
If it was a lousy HS, no college, then it's Fox News that you believe, make no mistake, those ARE the belief-centric people, and you vote GOP.
And no, YouTube will not delete it and my post adequately addresses conspiracy theories and the kind of people susceptible to falling for them.
No one disputes that as children we pretty much believe what we're being told until.....the age of reason kicks in. Shortly thereafter go Santa, the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy..
'If they were deceiving you, would you be able to recognize that?'
Pretty much, IF. If you went to a decent HS and took the usual college prep science, literature and history courses.
Even without college you should have at the very least acquired critical thinking skills that WOULD enable you to better understand the physical world AND more reliably discern shit from shinola.
If you were fortunate enough to attend college you would polish and sharpen those same skills. And you would then be far less helpless than otherwise in discerning fact from fiction, fact from opinion, fact from propaganda, science from junk science, association from causation and logical explanations from conspiracy theories.
Note, I said 'far less helpless'. Everybody can be fooled/deceived to some extent. All you can strive for is to reduce the extent. Strive, that's what learning is all about.
If it was a lousy HS, no college, then it's Fox News that you believe, make no mistake, those ARE the belief-centric people, and you vote GOP.
And no, YouTube will not delete it and my post adequately addresses conspiracy theories and the kind of people susceptible to falling for them.
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Education, Not Income, Predicted Who Would Vote For Trump
By Nate Silver
Nov. 22, 2016,at 2:53 PM
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/educatio...for-trump/
◾Trump’s approach to the campaign — relying on emotional appeals while glossing over policy details — may have resonated more among people with lower education levels as compared with Clinton’s wonkier and more cerebral approach.
Sometimes statistical analysis is tricky, and sometimes a finding just jumps off the page. Here’s one example of the latter.
I took a list of all 981 U.S. counties with 50,000 or more people
and sorted it by the share of the population that had completed at least a four-year college degree.
Hillary Clinton improved on President Obama’s 2012 performance in 48 of the country’s 50 most-well-educated counties. And on average, she improved on Obama’s margin of victory in these countries by almost 9 percentage points, even though Obama had done pretty well in them to begin with.
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