Ep03 - Discussions of Critical Thinking with Rick Lewis
Sep 28, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 3
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Episode description
Show Notes:
Availability bias
- “People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory.” (Kahneman 8)
- Plane crashes, murders, and other unlikely events on the news.
- Numerator vs denominator
- Therefore, “A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.” (Kahneman 62)
- ...looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with one’s existing beliefs.
- If you believe someone or something is good/bad, you are likely to seek out (consciously or unconsciously) information that reinforces that belief
Recommended Reading
Media Literacy
- Fact-Checking (PBS)
- The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
- Fake News: How To Spot Misinformation (NPR)
Intro Music Credit: https://rebrand.ly/5tjjh6y-applemusic or https://rebrand.ly/njn20ym-Spotify - Huge shout-out for this amazing music, do check his work out. I highly recommend it
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