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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 d
by mattigames 7y ago
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-the-classroom-a-high-school-science https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-148278044/skepticism-in...
- tombert 7y agoI 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-summer-school/ https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/01/kids-get-su...
- mattigames 7y agoThe 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.