On a scale where one end is deemed false and the other is deemed true, what influences where on the scale we position the 'information'?
Here's a question that is not intended to be answered, but should be enlightening. Try to glimpse what is your inclination to answer before you start to rationalize an answer:
On a scale where one end is deemed false and the other is deemed true, what influences where on the scale we position the 'information'?
Here's a question that is not intended to be answered, but should be enlightening. Try to glimpse what is your inclination to answer before you start to rationalize an answer:
Imagine you are travelling to a city in a foreign country where you have never been before, and want to go to a particular place. You come to a branch in the road where 2 people are standing. One seems to be wearing what might be considered a uniform of some sort. You ask which way to go and you get 2 different answers. Which way do you go?
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If a version of events is presented to you by office-holders and media companies with large staffs and broadcast/publishing capability, and another version is presented by a small number with an opposing view, which do you label as misinformation?
I actually really like that question. (God, do I have to go and pull some old Descartes off the shelf?)
To my mind, we should only be trying to disrupt/vanquish/admonish/whatever-verb-you-want misinformation that clearly and squarely sits on the 'demonstrably untrue' end of this informational scale. Everything short of that is a matter of debate, and doesn't benefit from finger-wagging.
(Also, I believe in your riddle, I'm supposed to ask "which of you tells the truth?")
No, don't go paging through Descartes. My point is that he never got past "Cogito ergo sum". That is, we don't "know" anything (other than that we exist).
There is no intended answer to the riddle. I just wanted people to identify their first inclination on which person to believe. Myself, I am for a microsecond inclined to go with the uniformed person before my logical brain kicks in and says there is no way to know the right answer. (Doesn't our emotional brain react quicker than our logical one?)
Is that because humans are social animals and naturally seek out and defer to leaders, or is it because we have been programmed since birth to obey?
Anyway, we appear to be susceptible to suggestion, and "misinformation" is designated by those with what we perceive to be the most impressive podium.
Descartes redux.
On a scale where one end is deemed false and the other is deemed true, what influences where on the scale we position the 'information'?
Here's a question that is not intended to be answered, but should be enlightening. Try to glimpse what is your inclination to answer before you start to rationalize an answer:
Imagine you are travelling to a city in a foreign country where you have never been before, and want to go to a particular place. You come to a branch in the road where 2 people are standing. One seems to be wearing what might be considered a uniform of some sort. You ask which way to go and you get 2 different answers. Which way do you go?
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If a version of events is presented to you by office-holders and media companies with large staffs and broadcast/publishing capability, and another version is presented by a small number with an opposing view, which do you label as misinformation?
I actually really like that question. (God, do I have to go and pull some old Descartes off the shelf?)
To my mind, we should only be trying to disrupt/vanquish/admonish/whatever-verb-you-want misinformation that clearly and squarely sits on the 'demonstrably untrue' end of this informational scale. Everything short of that is a matter of debate, and doesn't benefit from finger-wagging.
(Also, I believe in your riddle, I'm supposed to ask "which of you tells the truth?")
No, don't go paging through Descartes. My point is that he never got past "Cogito ergo sum". That is, we don't "know" anything (other than that we exist).
There is no intended answer to the riddle. I just wanted people to identify their first inclination on which person to believe. Myself, I am for a microsecond inclined to go with the uniformed person before my logical brain kicks in and says there is no way to know the right answer. (Doesn't our emotional brain react quicker than our logical one?)
Is that because humans are social animals and naturally seek out and defer to leaders, or is it because we have been programmed since birth to obey?
Anyway, we appear to be susceptible to suggestion, and "misinformation" is designated by those with what we perceive to be the most impressive podium.