Doing your own research is a good way to end up being wrong

The Washington Post ^ | January 17, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. EST | Philip Bump

[EasySt]

You must trust only the approved narrative and the most highly paid,
er, respected, fact checkers, grant recipients, study providers,
enemedia moguls, current administration handlers... etc.

[DesertRhino]

Bat soup, wear your mask, Ukraine isn’t nazi, wear your mask, global warming, safest election ever, 6 feet of separation, eat eggs, don’t eat eggs, Trump is crooked, eat mostly carbs, Biden is honest, get your shot, get 8 boosters, etc etc etc...

Sure, listen to authorities, experts and the mainstream news.

[mass55th]

No surprise this comes from the Washington Compost. Doing research doesn’t mean only seeking information from one source. It means seeking out multiple sources, extracting important facts, analyzing them, forming your own opinions, presenting those opinions, and defending those opinions based on the source material you used to come to that decision. Research also requires that you provide a specific list of the sources you accessed and used to come to your end result.

[HYPOCRACY]

I read it somewhere. I wrote it down, then I read it.

[DoodleBob]

Our findings highlight the need for media literacy efforts combatting the effects of misinformation to ground their recommendations in empirically tested interventions, as well as search engines to invest in solutions to the challenges identified here. For example, recent developments in the space—such as the expansion of teaching lateral reading strategies and Google’s warning when no credible information is available for given search queries44—are interesting steps in this direction and deserve further testing.

We are gonna trust Academics and Google? ALL HAIL…

Authority bias is the tendency to attribute greater accuracy to the opinion of an authority figure (unrelated to its content) and be more influenced by that opinion. An individual is more influenced by the opinion of this authority figure, believing their views to be more credible, and hence place greater emphasis on the authority figure's viewpoint and are more likely to obey them. This concept is considered one of the social cognitive biases or collective cognitive biases.

[cornfedcowboy]

For some reason “truth” is harder than ever to find.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

[Reeses]

The Washington Post is an apt name because George Washington was a white man that used charismatic cult-like mind control to keep his slaves from wandering off the plantation. George even tried to sign them up to a subscription plan and charge them for his white privilege, but that failed for some reason.

[lightman]

Doing your own research is a good way to end up being wrong,

"Trusting the 'experts'" is a good way to end up dead.

[vrwconspiracist]

What else would a lying rag shilling for a billionaire and his government cronies say to try to get truth-seekers off their scent?

[Newtoidaho]

Reading the compost, the slimes or watching any of the communist TV broadcasters is a guaranteed way to be misinformed.

[No.6]

Iowa really has them frightened. Since Monday night it’s been a constant outrush of why not to trust yourself, why Trump is popular despite (stream of lies), expert source says Trump will (insert something Brandon/Obama are doing right now), etc etc. ad nauseam.

WEF gave the executive order that ‘misinformation’ is enemy #1 and the minions scramble to duckspeak goodthought doubleplushasty.

[DoughtyOne]

So true...

[DoughtyOne]

no

smile

[Libloather]

[Georgia Girl 2]

The WaPo should know they’ve been doing it for years. 😏

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Democracy dies with Democrats.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Dan Bongino’s Rule #1 is “Don’t get dead.”

[Texas Fossil]

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[Texas Fossil]

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