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Originally Posted by NuclearFart
But moving forwards, I do think it will be integral to arm the public with the proper tools to sort through all the crap for themselves. Basic data analysis techniques, logic, statistics, and methods of critical appraisal to name a few are lacking in much of the public
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Is this not the goal of higher education? Suddenly that Arts degree doesn't look so useless does it... Critical thinking, cultivated and developed in any discipline at a post-secondary level (not neccessarily
in a post-secondary institution, but at that level of sophistication), is, and has always been, essential.