Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, Killed in Christchurch

Re:Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, K... by spamizbad on Monday March 18, 2019 @09:26PM (#19427234)

But most people do think critically. Have you considered this phenomenon to simply be shared or group cognition (also something nearly everyone experiences), rather than a lack of critical thinking skills?

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Re:Atta Elayyan, Developer of MetroTube and LazyWorm Apps, K... by epicureanideal on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:32PM (#19445319)

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about most people thinking critically. I don't have anything other than personal experience to justify my position and a quick Google search wasn't able to turn up any convincing studies.

Group cognition (from a quick skim of a Wikipedia article about it) doesn't seem to justify lack of individual critical thinking though. It seems to be more like a term to describe a process, like "memes" and "idea viruses". It doesn't substitute for individual critical thinking.

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