Crash Course Videos #6 and #7

Which is another question we should ask ourselves when evaluating information?

• Is this information exciting?

• What is the evidence?

• Does this information help prove my point?

• Does this information fit in with my world view?

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Why is it important to ask yourself what evidence is provided to support a claim?

• Evidence is needed to solve crimes.

• The credibility of a claim depends on the evidence provided to back it up.

• The credibility of a claim in entirely dependent on the quantity of the information.

• The credibility of a claim in entirely dependent on the quality of the information.

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John Green talks about a story that spread through social media in 2018 concerning a deadly spider. Which is NOT an example of a reason people should have been suspicious of this story?

• There were no links to the news stories about the deaths that this spider.

• The post doesn’t say what type of spider this is, where it typically lives, or how it traveled from from South Carolina to West Virginia without visiting Virginia.

• The source is a seemingly random Facebook user.

• There were no pictures of the spider.

True or false? If a source provides evidence, that is enough to prove it trustworthy.

• True

• False

True or False? We are quicker to believe evidence that supports of pre-existing worldview.

• True

• False

What is irrelevant evidence?

• It's evidence that we find offensive.

• It is evidence that people say to support their claims, but it really about something else.

• It is evidence that is made up.

• It is evidence that had been disproven by later scientific developments.

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A spurious correlation is

• a correlation that is offensive to the reader.

• the implied causal relationship between events that are coincidentally linked.

• a correlation made up on the spur of a moment.

• when an event is caused by another event.

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True or False? Photos are the best evidence because they can't be faked.

• True

• False

True or False: You can use your lateral reading skills with pictures too.

• True

• False

True or False? The only way to mislead an audience with a photo is to alter it in some way, so if the photo is unaltered, it must be reliable and good evidence.

• True

• False