"Trust the Science"

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[–]Kyto113 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Except what most people think is "critical thinking" is actually just confirmation bias or plain old contrarianism.

Look at the sites that are shared on this forum. There's absolutely no critical analysis of anything that agrees with the preconceptions of this site's userbase. in fact, one of the main reasons I'm on this site is to get fodder for my critical thinking class

[–]bobbobbybob 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

'fodder' for critical thinking?

Have you been examining your own mental processes, or do you just want ammunition to support your adherence to the instructions given my media?

[–]Kyto113 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The site is an excellent example of failures of critical thinking. Just the other day I saw a thread full of people accepting as fact a meme that was easily identifiable as misinformation with three seconds of googling.

[–]Akali 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What you saw was a minority of people liking a meme either because it was funny or because they believe it was relevent.

To assume that these same people are 1 : A good representation of the user base. And 2 : In agreement to the belief that the said meme was factual. Is quite the strech of the mind. I often like stuff that are funny even if they incorrect. If I want factual information, I'll use US census, OCDE data bank or peer reviewed documents. I will look at the data and judge. I'm not taking my information from a news network and said it is mostly a censor free media. It's a mixt between reddit and 4chan in a way.