The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking

Re:The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking by blahman2 on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:16PM (#16216522)

Many of the comments here show why critical thinking is a useful skill esp with articles such as this one, but given how much volume there is nowadays, and the fact that we are not all subject matter experts, it becomes a bit cumbersome.

I wish these articles had a "Ways in which our claim could be wrong" section. Maybe every article should. E.g. Here is what i think, but here are aspects of it that I haven't looked into that could make me change my stance.

At the very least, you'd know the author made some effort to be truthful, and not just sensationalist/misled.

Perhaps we can have a browser extension that aggregates and ranks crowdsourced feedback on articles such as this one? :P

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Re:The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking by guitarbill on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:29PM (#16216693)

It's also worth keeping in mind who this data/report for. Bloomberg has a specific audience, who love distilled information - that is doesn't capture the whole picture is a given, but who really has the time to do research themselves? That's why you pay Bloomberg.

But now with the internet, any rando can read this stuff and obsess over it.

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Re:The U.S. drops out of the top 10 in innovation ranking by lnreddy on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:26PM (#16216661)

Isn't that what the comments section of an article is ? Crowd sourced feedback ? The problem with crowd sourced feedback is that most of it is low effort/low quality trolling.

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