Interesting study on online reasoning conducted by Stamford. Study involved US middle school, high school and college age kids and gave each age group several online scenarios to evaluate. The results were concerning!
Here are 3 examples from the study’s executive summary. How well do you do? I’ll post a link to the study later.
First one was given to middle school kids. The task was to identify the ads on the page.
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Next HS kids - evaluate the trustworthiness of an image:
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Finally college students - evaluate a tweet. Why AND why might it not be useful information? (Because of confirmation bias you may have more trouble with one answer than the other.)
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Screenshot of the tweet below. Here’s the URL in the tweet in case you’re lazy -
https://ampr.gs/1Pyw4qg
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