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[–] 35 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Dunno, man: 40% of Americans believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old. Only 2% of them believe it's flat, though. We are not an information-rich culture.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I disagree. There is no shortage of information. It's just mixed in with a shitload of misinformation, disinformation, and bullshit, garnished with slop and irrelevant garbage to also have to sift through to find anything useful.

    And we stopped teaching kids how to differentiate because we thought it would be more important to prove through standardized tests that kids are meeting curricula, but that means we all memorized "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" without actually breaking down what that phrase means.

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