An attempt to make news reading an exercise to improve critical thinking. The POC is based on NYTimes article – “Footage Contradicts U.S. Claim That Nicolás Maduro Burned Aid Convoy”. POC is designed to make the reader assume a role of investigative journalism. For example, the reader is allowed to arrive at a wrong conclusion: “Its clear, he only set the truck on fire” and the article talks the reader out to a correct way of thinking-“But Colombian government released the footage, is it complete, lets examine it?”, making the user think about the report.
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An alternative to predicting future
“If you wanted to count every product and service on offer in New York – there are 10 billion of them – it would take you 317 years. This is how complex the economy we’ve created is” – Tim Harford, in his Ted Talk – Trial, Error and the God complex. Taking into account theContinueContinue reading “An alternative to predicting future”
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