I think this chart is biased 🙂
My 13 year old was taught to factcheck in school.
100% of students were thought the order of operations yet the majority of the people on Facebook fail those dumb math posts.
Wikipedia is NOT a source!
US 79%, yeah right…
“biased” meaning not the sources we tell you to use.
Objectivity doesn’t really exist at the end of the day, so it’s kind of weird that we pretend otherwise.
You can present hard cold facts all day long, interpretation will always be a personal experience.
And even then, which information can you trust and which can’t you? These days, if you want to look up arguments that are pro vaccines you will find plenty, but equally if you want arguments that are anti vaccines you will find them. (just as an example)
Of course both sides are not equal, but if you come to a subject with zero knowledge, how do you distinguish fact from fiction? Everyone is quoting supposed studies and scientific articles (often either they don’t really exist or otherwise misinterpreted/fake, not to mention there have been cases of corrupt scientists as well faking data and on top of that certain studies got hidden/suppressed (eg fossil fuels effects on climate change)).
At the end of the day, any shred of information should not be taken at face value, we should always be at least partially skeptical towards them, *especially* for things we wish were true.
Most adults and even most “experts” as we love to call them can’t even detect biased information. If a 15 year old says they believe they’ve been taught that they’re capable of doing so, that’s a bad thing.
Detecting bias implies that you have an understanding of what interest that bias is serving. You simply don’t have that level of intellectual background at 15. Reminds me of this quote:
*“Other countries whose educational systems achieve more than ours often do so in part by attempting less. While school children in Japan are learning science, mathematics, and a foreign language, American school children are sitting around in circles, unburdening their psyches and “expressing themselves” on scientific, economic and military issues for which they lack even the rudiments of competence. Worse than what they are not learning is what they are learning—presumptuous superficiality, taught by practitioners of it.”*
*― Thomas Sowell, Inside American Education*
So how many of the ‘not taught’ part would actually be ‘I forgot’?
Like the ‘I’ve never seen this’ squad when they need some basic 14y/o maths.
Wouldn’t the “education” they received in authoritarian/undemocratic states like Singapore or Russia be biased in itself? In their cases that will likely end up making people reject the objective outside sources in favour of brainwashing state media.
“WikiPeDiA is NoT a VaLiD SouRCe” comes to mind.
Om eerlijk te wezen
Ik wantrouw die playmobil detective
I dont care about most ranking cause statistics are a weird thing. I do however look for one thing in any country ranking and this time it did not disappoint
Were above the Netherlands.
Just try and prove someone wrong. The HAHA! when you can give multiple sources saying the same thing is worth all the effort. Me smort you stoopid ahahahhaha
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This whole thing looks biased to me
I think this chart is biased 🙂
My 13 year old was taught to factcheck in school.
100% of students were thought the order of operations yet the majority of the people on Facebook fail those dumb math posts.
Wikipedia is NOT a source!
US 79%, yeah right…
“biased” meaning not the sources we tell you to use.
Objectivity doesn’t really exist at the end of the day, so it’s kind of weird that we pretend otherwise.
You can present hard cold facts all day long, interpretation will always be a personal experience.
And even then, which information can you trust and which can’t you? These days, if you want to look up arguments that are pro vaccines you will find plenty, but equally if you want arguments that are anti vaccines you will find them. (just as an example)
Of course both sides are not equal, but if you come to a subject with zero knowledge, how do you distinguish fact from fiction? Everyone is quoting supposed studies and scientific articles (often either they don’t really exist or otherwise misinterpreted/fake, not to mention there have been cases of corrupt scientists as well faking data and on top of that certain studies got hidden/suppressed (eg fossil fuels effects on climate change)).
At the end of the day, any shred of information should not be taken at face value, we should always be at least partially skeptical towards them, *especially* for things we wish were true.
Most adults and even most “experts” as we love to call them can’t even detect biased information. If a 15 year old says they believe they’ve been taught that they’re capable of doing so, that’s a bad thing.
Detecting bias implies that you have an understanding of what interest that bias is serving. You simply don’t have that level of intellectual background at 15. Reminds me of this quote:
*“Other countries whose educational systems achieve more than ours often do so in part by attempting less. While school children in Japan are learning science, mathematics, and a foreign language, American school children are sitting around in circles, unburdening their psyches and “expressing themselves” on scientific, economic and military issues for which they lack even the rudiments of competence. Worse than what they are not learning is what they are learning—presumptuous superficiality, taught by practitioners of it.”*
*― Thomas Sowell, Inside American Education*
So how many of the ‘not taught’ part would actually be ‘I forgot’?
Like the ‘I’ve never seen this’ squad when they need some basic 14y/o maths.
Wouldn’t the “education” they received in authoritarian/undemocratic states like Singapore or Russia be biased in itself? In their cases that will likely end up making people reject the objective outside sources in favour of brainwashing state media.
“WikiPeDiA is NoT a VaLiD SouRCe” comes to mind.
Om eerlijk te wezen
Ik wantrouw die playmobil detective
I dont care about most ranking cause statistics are a weird thing. I do however look for one thing in any country ranking and this time it did not disappoint
Were above the Netherlands.
Just try and prove someone wrong. The HAHA! when you can give multiple sources saying the same thing is worth all the effort. Me smort you stoopid ahahahhaha
Education been worth it I must say