I’ve been playing around with this idea I have called “n-link civic literacy” it’s an unscientific measure of civic literacy (how good are you at extracting and understanding information from the news) that works by measuring the number of links it takes to successfully obscure bullshit from the reader.
Did you read a headline, form an opinion and react to it without reading the article? Then you are -1 link literate. Do you open the article but believe it’s claims without checking the source material? Then you are 0 link literate. Click through to the study cited by the article? 1 link literate.
Probably would not work for edge cases, but I think could work to get a rough measure of the civic literacy of a community.
I personally don’t bother fact checking a lot of articles I read because I don’t really form opinions about them. If it’s important I’ll dig but I really just look at as biased noise. I’ll always try and phrase out what the agenda of the writer is, but most of the time the only hard opinion I form is “this may or may not be true”
Even the stuff I read that aligns with my own beliefs. Maybe especially. You should always be re-evaluating and changing the way you see the world based on new evidence.
I’ve been playing around with this idea I have called “n-link civic literacy” it’s an unscientific measure of civic literacy (how good are you at extracting and understanding information from the news) that works by measuring the number of links it takes to successfully obscure bullshit from the reader.
Did you read a headline, form an opinion and react to it without reading the article? Then you are -1 link literate. Do you open the article but believe it’s claims without checking the source material? Then you are 0 link literate. Click through to the study cited by the article? 1 link literate.
Probably would not work for edge cases, but I think could work to get a rough measure of the civic literacy of a community.
I’m down with this.
I’d add ability to perceive bias and credible reporting.
I only read your first sentence and I agree with you.
I only read your first sentence and I disagree with you.
I like this metric.
I personally don’t bother fact checking a lot of articles I read because I don’t really form opinions about them. If it’s important I’ll dig but I really just look at as biased noise. I’ll always try and phrase out what the agenda of the writer is, but most of the time the only hard opinion I form is “this may or may not be true”
Even the stuff I read that aligns with my own beliefs. Maybe especially. You should always be re-evaluating and changing the way you see the world based on new evidence.