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I wonder if it's to measure things like critical thinking skills and compare them with the videos people watch. The average American reads at 7th-8th grade lev

by a5aAqU 5y ago

I wonder if it's to measure things like critical thinking skills and compare them with the videos people watch. The average American reads at 7th-8th grade level and might not know what "false dichotomy" means, so it could be useful data. It's also a logical fallacy, so it might give an indication about whether a person has been exposed to the ideas of logical fallacies. "People who aren't familiar with logical fallacies tend to become radicalized by YouTube in X months."

nailer 5y ago
> "People who aren't familiar with logical fallacies tend to become radicalized by YouTube in X months." Huh that's odd, I was thinking the opposite - people with critical thinking skills are often labelled as radical for disagreeing with logical flaws in the current mainstream narrative. Witness: Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, Russiagate, ore more recently the Rittenhouse 'white supremacist' theory.