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Originally shared by Anne-Marie Clark<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Article is a quick read. Good reminders. “Fundamental impulse at play: our innate desire for an easy answer.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n …<\/p>\n\n\n\n ” Fact-checkers<\/strong>, they found, didn\u2019t fall prey to the same missteps as other groups. When presented with the American College of Pediatricians task, for example, they almost immediately left the site and started opening new tabs to see what the wider web had to say about the organization.<\/strong> Wineburg has dubbed this lateral reading.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n …<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Another tactic fact-checkers used that others didn\u2019t is what Wineburg calls ‘click restraint.’<\/strong> They would scan a whole page of search results\u2013maybe even two\u2013before choosing a path forward. ‘It\u2019s the ability to stand back and get a sense of the overall territory in which you\u2019ve landed,’ he says, ‘rather than promiscuously clicking on the first thing.’ This is important, because people or organizations with an agenda can game search results by packing their sites with keywords, so that those sites rise to the top and more objective assessments get buried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The lessons they\u2019ve developed include such techniques and teach kids to always start with the same question: Who is behind the information?<\/strong> Although it is still experimenting, a pilot that Wineburg\u2019s team conducted at a college in California this past spring showed that such tiny behavioral changes can yield significant results. Another technique he champions is simpler still: just read it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n “One study found that 6 in 10 links get retweeted without users\u2019 reading anything besides someone else\u2019s summation of it.<\/strong> Another found that false stories travel six times as fast as true ones on Twitter, apparently because lies do a better job of stimulating feelings of surprise and disgust.<\/strong> “<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n From:<\/p>\n\n\n\n