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From her survey: >Another 85 percent of our respondents said critical thinking skills are generally lacking in the public. “Changing societal norms” was the mo
by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
From her survey:
>Another 85 percent of our respondents said critical thinking skills are generally lacking in the public. “Changing societal norms” was the most commonly cited reason for the lack of critical thinking skills.
I think the respondents were being loose with "critical thinking" here. Chronically talking past each other with bad faith doesn't require poor reasoning, it only requires a sense of spite and a need for emotional climax.
Fido may provide more love, but the blue birds provide more fight.
- cirgue 5y agoI would also be interested in seeing what this number was over the previous 5 decades. My guess is that it’s not changed much. This doesn’t say anything meaningful other than that it’s a bad metric, but it has a whiff of plato complaining about the youth.
- readflaggedcomm 5y agoIn the past, most people blamed bad reasoning for societal changes, right? It seems this survey implies the blame for cause and effect have been switched. If its results are accurate, which I don't know how to gauge, it might be a way of saying that people blame bad ideas for others not agreeing with them. Not sure if there are any other satisfactory interpretations.
- coffeefirst 5y agoRight. This is about norms and structure, not skills. The same people behave differently in a rowdy bar than a library because they can read the room. Everyone is still responsible for their own behavior, but first and foremost we need to blame the venue that year after year decided to encourage it.