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If the children are the future, the future might be very ill-informed.
That’s one implication of a new study from Stanford researchers that evaluated students’ ability to assess information sources and described the results as “dismaying,” “bleak” and “[a] threat to democracy.”
As content creators and social media platforms grapple with the fake news crisis, the study highlights the other side of the equation: What it looks like when readers are duped.
The researchers at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education have spent more than a year evaluating how well students across the country can evaluate online sources of information.
Neither can their parents, according to recent evidence.
Michael Clark says - Posted: December 2, 2016
Indeed, this lack of skill is not limited to students. I have friends who still post articles that can be shown as nonsense in under a second with a simple search on the internet. Yet, they persist. The problem is confirmation bias. And it has been sold as a benefit of freedom rather than the scourge of civil society that it is. Sad to see our great country suffer from this behavior.
Neither can their parents, according to recent evidence.
Indeed, this lack of skill is not limited to students. I have friends who still post articles that can be shown as nonsense in under a second with a simple search on the internet. Yet, they persist. The problem is confirmation bias. And it has been sold as a benefit of freedom rather than the scourge of civil society that it is. Sad to see our great country suffer from this behavior.