1. Read news once a day. 2. Never trust head lines. Use head lines only as an indicator that a certain event has happened. Always do your on research on topics

1. Read news once a day. 2. Never trust head lines. Use head lines only as an indicator that a certain event has happened. Always do your on research on topics that are important to you. 3. Never gauge the importance of a news item by the size of the font it is printed (or the number of up votes it has if it is on a forum). 4. Always follow up on important stuff. For example, if there is a news about a politician doing something bad, the media ll forget it after a couple of days. But follow up it regularly, and know how the story ends.. 5. When statistics is involved, be extremely skeptical.