Oddbean new post about login | logout #asknostr When you see anything online, do you fact check it or do you take it as face value without doing your due diligence? I am curious to know. I don't and it is healthy to be skeptic at every information fed onto you. To me this is common sense. However, I am also aware that "COMMON SENSE does not mean "COMMON PRACTICE". As I am doing my research of the current issues centralised platform use to banned people is "fake or misinformation". This is for my content to promotr nostr. Thoughts #nostr? #freedom #awareness #grownostr
For me it's an aggregate. I consider: A) the source, have they been right before? Are they fake news/biased, do they have an agenda? B) how the information is stated. "40% of Americans ____" is automatically bullshit because there's no way they polled a meaningful % of the population and no way is that clean data. C) Does it make sense on what I already know? "Trump has ties with Russia" well that doesn't make any sense vs "Deaths increase by 5%". D) Does it matter? Usually no lol
I love it when you say: it is unlikely they can pull a clean data" LOL this is like music to my ears as a data consultant. Yes, I am 💯 with you. What you did there was critical thinking. Sadly, this is now a rare skillsets, or at least what the centralised platform is trying to tell us! 🤓
Skeptic, but if I don't find it worth my energy which I typically won't then I do not look further into it. Trust is earned and verified.
So true! 💯 Sadly, some people take it as face value when they see it often especially when it goes viral and then equate it as FACT because more people create content of the same topic! 🤓
It depends. I don’t give my energy to certain things. When I do, I believe in using common sense. And digging deeper to gain more information. I’m also extremely analytical and rational. I approach things differently than the average person. In addition, I read a lot and have a good memory. So I’m able to typically spot when something is off with ease. If one has a substantial knowledge base, it’s easier to determine the real from the fake.
It depends on what topic and how important i find it