> "People’s reasoning abilities are deficient with respect to the laws of logic and probability which obviously impacts their ability to be information or media literate."
My whole point, which most responses have ignored, is that the skills needed to test media claims for veracity are learnable, trainable, understandable, etc. I mean, not a single comment has addressed the notion of internal self-consistency, which in mathematical terms is called, 'contradiction'. A person who claims it's okay for them to steal from their neighbor, but not for their neighbor to steal from them, can safely be laughed out of the room.
> "People’s reasoning abilities are deficient with respect to the laws of logic and probability which obviously impacts their ability to be information or media literate."
My whole point, which most responses have ignored, is that the skills needed to test media claims for veracity are learnable, trainable, understandable, etc. I mean, not a single comment has addressed the notion of internal self-consistency, which in mathematical terms is called, 'contradiction'. A person who claims it's okay for them to steal from their neighbor, but not for their neighbor to steal from them, can safely be laughed out of the room.