How to cope with news overload, with Markus Brauer, PhD, and Don Grant, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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Is Social Media the Best Source of Information?
I think also it should be made quite clear that people are very bad at distinguishing real, distinguishing real news from fake news and people widely exaggerate overestimate their ability to do that. We're actually incredibly poor and there are hundreds of studies showing exactly that. And finally, I think what we need is a little bit more training, maybe statistical thinking or being able to understand uncertainty.
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