Conflicting Ideas and Bias

The main claim in the article, Conflicting Ideas is

• People want to embrace germs like they do sanitation

• People want to study ideas as if they were like germs

• People want to try to get rid of ideas like they get rid of germs

What evidence supports the main claim, ( People want to study ideas as if they were like germs)?

• Ideas, the thinking went, spread in much the same way, as a bout of flu or measles

• Social media is something that has much to do with how people interact

• When ideas are decent, people will gravitate toward them

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What is the best reasoning as to why people want to study ideas as if they were like germs.

• People don't want to study ideas as if they were like germs

• This would mean that people didn't need to :reinvent the wheel" and come up with new methods

• People are mostly lazy and most people hate research and dealing with many possibilities.

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What is the 2nd main claim in Conflicting Ideas?

• Germs are microscopic and not easily discovered. Therefore sanitation practices are a must.

• Ideas are broad and many people differ in their opinions

• Research shows that ideas don't spread like germs.

What is the definition of a main claim?

• The author's point of view or opinion about a subject

• The author's unbiased and factual information

• The author's detective skills in finding clues about disease

What does sufficient evidence mean?

• Evidence that is minor and lacks depth

• Evidence that is supportive enough to prove the claim

• Evidence that is multifaceted, but does not lead to proper understanding

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How does the author of Conflicting Ideas support the 2nd claim: Research shows that ideas don't spread like germs?

• By including the information that said, Researchers found that the best predictor of whether someone would join Facebook were the number of distinct groups of friends .

• By including the information that said, Facebook is not useful in spreading the word on how to get friends

• By including the information that said, It is not known how people accumulate the numbers of friends they have.

What is social contagion?

• the spread of the ideas that proper sanitation is the only way to stop the spread of disease.

• the spread of diseases though out a particular region of the world

• the spread of behaviors, attitudes, through crowds and other types of social aggregates from one member to another.

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What is another word for contagion?

• contagious

• Cholera

• causation

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The title of the article is Conflicting Ideas. Before you read the text, what did you think the text would be about?

• Two ideas that were equal in their meaning

• polar opposite ideas

• Ideas about diseases such as cholera, Typhoid and The Black Death

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