More Odds and Ends
A structure of logical argumentation made of premises and a conclusion.
What is a syllogism?
The classmate likes to collect rocks & minerals.
Who is Miracle?
This person has a pet pig.
Who is Julianna?
The article that EVERYONE has to cite at least twice in Essay #1.
What is "Escape the Echo Chamber"?
This student has an obession with water bottles.
Who is Emma?
The act of finding patterns and connections through analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of gathered knowledge to guide thought and action.
What is critical thinking?
The classmate that loves to watch thrillers.
Who is Pakou?
This classmate has an impressive cassette tape collection.
Who is Miguel?
Two social structures that are distinct threats to a healthy information flow. One actively discredits outsiders and the other excludes them by omission. (They are often conflated in popular discourse.)
What is an echo chamber and epistemic bubble?
This classmate likes to build gaming PCs in their freetime.
Who is Diego?
This is the appeal to a person's cultural preferences (in a measure of credibility and morality).
What is Ethos?
This person spent most of their childhood in Mexico.
Who is Mitxell? (Don't pronounce the T.)
This person is a cancer rising, gemini moon, and leo sun.
Who is Allison?
Studies show that the "total irrationality" explanation for the "post-truth" attitude is misleading. Instead, they suggest members of an echo chamber are still interested in the truth but have had this fundamental aspect of their epistemology manipulated.
What is "where they place their trust" (or "their trusted authorities")?
This person is the biggest Eminem fan.
Who is Victoria?
A person's inherent inclination in favor of or against something. Generally unconscious, it is often typified as a person's default perception; it is a slant in thinking that prevents purely objective analysis.
What is bias?
These two students both remarked that they like learning new things; one will break out of their shyness with passion and the other has a spark for learning.
Who are Sandy and Jordyn?
This person is a witch when they are angry.
Who is Shannon?
Nguyen argues that while both exclude outside views, an epistemic bubble omits them by accident or omission, whereas an echo chamber actively does this to outside views.
What is "discredits them" (or "undermines their trustworthiness")?
This classmate was a cheerleader for 13 years and has been a cheer coach for 4 years now.
Who is Andrea?
These people like the outdoors.
Who are tall people?
This classmate likes making beats (and is possibly a DJ?).
Who is Jay?
The 3 students that play guitar.
Nguyen concludes that the most effective way to help someone escape an echo chamber is not to bombard them with facts, but to repair this fundamental element. This is why personal encounters are so powerful.
What is "trust"?
They are two impressive runners. (One ran a marathon and the other recently ran a 10k.)
Who are Monica and Madison?