{"id":30253,"date":"2016-11-23T13:45:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T18:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=30253"},"modified":"2016-11-23T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T18:45:25","slug":"the-facts-of-life-not-in-middle-schools-for-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=30253","title":{"rendered":"The Facts of Life: not in middle schools, for sure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One major aspect of pondering (and going crazy over) the Facts of Life is thinking practically about how to convince people that it&#8217;s a good thing to be able to distinguish between <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p13yRc-7On\">facts as presented in news media<\/a>, and fake news as presented by Russian trolls and<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p13yRc-7R6\"> other political liars.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we can&#8217;t persuade adults to absorb facts and make decisions based on facts, then what do we do? Teach the kids. Start &#8217;em out on the path to facts by schooling them early. Right?<\/p>\n<p>Today I picked up this ultra disheartening information from FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s Significant Digits, which in turn got it from the WSJ:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>82 percent<\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Percentage of middle school students who weren\u2019t able to determine the difference between sponsored content and a real news article, according to a new Stanford University study. [<a href=\"http:\/\/link.fivethirtyeight.com\/click\/8195304.53099\/aHR0cDovL3d3dy53c2ouY29tL2FydGljbGVzL21vc3Qtc3R1ZGVudHMtZG9udC1rbm93LXdoZW4tbmV3cy1pcy1mYWtlLXN0YW5mb3JkLXN0dWR5LWZpbmRzLTE0Nzk3NTI1NzY_cmVmbGluaz1lMnR3c2MmZXhfY2lkPVNpZ0RpZw\/57e30db12ddf9c66ccd492c8Bc3e8fde5\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One major aspect of pondering (and going crazy over) the Facts of Life is thinking practically about how to convince people that it&#8217;s a good thing to be able to distinguish between facts as presented in news media, and fake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=30253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[1182,1176],"class_list":["post-30253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-facts-of-life","tag-fake-news","tag-the-facts-of-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One major aspect of pondering (and going crazy over) the Facts of Life is thinking practically about how to convince people that it&#039;s a good thing to be able to distinguish between facts as presented in news media, and fake news as presented by Russian trolls and other political liars. 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