No doubt this post would have been appropriate to one of the current American Politics threads, but I thought it better to open a thread of its own.The more people believe in conspiracy theories, the worse they perform on critical thinking tests, a new study has confirmed.
This doesn’t mean that conspiracy theorists are necessarily lacking intelligence, but rather that they lack the skills to objectively analyse and evaluate a situation.....
..... Critical thinking is the objective analysis and evaluation of a situation – and requires a number of cognitive skills.
These include the ability to think systematically, see other perspectives, change your mind when new evidence arises, identify relevant versus irrelevant information, identify and discard logical fallacies, be aware of biases and avoid them, and look beyond the obvious.......
....What the researchers found was a strong association between lower critical thinking skills and an increased tendency toward believing conspiracy theories......
https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/science ... 2020210726
Conspiracy theorists lack critical thinking skills: New study
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Conspiracy theorists lack critical thinking skills: New study
This probably comes as no surprise to those with critical thinking skills.
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A check list for those who actually have an interest in critical thinking.
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I know a guy who is an avid conspiracy theorist. Flat Earth, David Ike’s lizard people, 9/11 hoax, Moon Landing faked by Stanley Kubrick, global ‘reset’ by the Illuminati...the full set of conspiracy stuff...none of this, I should add, do I personally buy into. That said, the dude is far from an idiot, indeed he is placed in the top 2% of Mensa (UK). In this instance no correlation between stupidity and conspiracy.
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Thanks for that post shado.If you and i would implement this with an real effort..not only you and me ,but the whole world would be a nicer and more happy to live in,don't you think.
I copy and pasted this,later i will try to make like a remind-me-poster to hang up in my office room.Live and learn/change to the better is my motto
Have a nice day shado..//Alfie..
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Did you study philosophy in high school or college?
You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.
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I recall taking a philosophy course but I don't remember any salient points. That was a long time ago.
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This new study will come as no surprise to readers of the Map Forum.
What drives belief in conspiracy theories, a lack of religion or too much?
White evangelicals are more likely to follow debunked claims
....... White evangelicals, the most religiously devout group among those surveyed by YouGov, are particularly susceptible to supporting QAnon and believing other conspiracy theories.....
..... Belief in these theories is also linked to a person’s political views. White evangelicals are 34 percentage points more likely than other Americans to believe that “millions of illegal votes” were cast in the 2020 election.......
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detai ... l_weekly_8
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Don’t hit too hard on white evangelicals, their road to …. is paved with good intentions.
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Religion is the most dangerous of all conspiracy theorists groups
Each one want the other one to convert and if they dont then they want to defeat them bringing them into submission or death
This has been going on for centuries
Each one want the other one to convert and if they dont then they want to defeat them bringing them into submission or death
This has been going on for centuries
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Life must have been so much easier when you had a choice of thousands of gods to thank for a good harvest or a good sh*t
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Words from a true believer
As it is said "Thank goodness for free speech, it soon shows us who the idiots are "
As it is said "Thank goodness for free speech, it soon shows us who the idiots are "
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Its amazing how fake news can be over 2000 years old, and we still get people prepared to believe it
yet poor old Declan posts his fake news and everyone manages to disprove it in 10 mins
yet poor old Declan posts his fake news and everyone manages to disprove it in 10 mins
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Never a truer word spoken. Which one of the 3 main middle eastern born religions actually practice this newly discovered Critical Thinking philosophy.
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I think it is well established that critical thinking is not widespread amongst the masses - hence the rise of the 3 religions you refer to.