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Re:Leaked email shows how Cambridge Analytica and Facebook f... by nocobot on Sunday March 25, 2018 @09:04AM (#16672006)
In high school I was told to make up statistics as needed when writing essays. Anecdotal evidence of course but I suspect that many schools do a bad job at this.

But I suspect the bigger problem is that the amount of research needed to hold an informed opinion is growing exponentially in many fields.

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Re:Leaked email shows how Cambridge Analytica and Facebook f... by perfmode on Sunday March 25, 2018 @11:35AM (#16672619)
> But I suspect the bigger problem is that the amount of research needed to hold an informed opinion is growing exponentially in many fields.

Which is why trust becomes more important than ever.

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