Re:How YouTube converted people to flat Earth
by mattigames on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:40AM
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The amount of studies about skeptisim and gullibility around the world are near none, but there is some data about US highschoolers consider true and it shows dangerous trends such as 1 every 4 students believing astrology is real: https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-148278044/skepticism-in...
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Re:How YouTube converted people to flat Earth
by tombert on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:47AM
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I would need to see comparisons with the rest of the world before that has any relevance to my point. Kids will believe lots of stupid things.
According to todayifoundout, US schools aren't nearly as bad as the meme likes to portray them [1].
[1] https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/01/kids-get-su...
Re:How YouTube converted people to flat Earth
by mattigames on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:12PM
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The thing is that we don't know how related the other areas of education are with skepticism; if I would have to guess I would say reading and science are the most related but that's just a guess, the best path forward would be to actually measure skepticism, stuff like how good are people at spotting fake news from the real ones and such.