100 questions referring to information literacy
You might think it would be in everybody’s interest to use information for better decisions. However, the opposite seems to be true when it comes to vaccination, flat earth, Internet trolls, fake news and the like. Indeed, facts can be hard to cope with. But turning a blind eye to facts does not make them go away. Instead, it makes it even harder to cope with them.
- Why do people prefer opinions to knowledge?
- Why are rumors more interesting than news?
- Why do we trust marketeers rather than scientists?
- Why do we make so many decisions from the gut and not from the head?
- Why do we need critical thinking when artificial intelligence can do it for us?
- How do we know what‘s true in the age of information overload?
- Why do people vote for a party which acts against their own interests?
- Why are some people FOR Brexit if others are against it?
- Why do people still smoke cigarettes despite the health warnings by producers and doctors?
- Why can people’s opinions be heard so much louder than people’s facts?
- Why do we give names to our children whereas the national health service gives them ID numbers?
- Why do politicians have fans rather than voters?
- Why do more than one in four Austrians believe in telepathy, wonder healing and supernatural perceptions?
- Why do we need libraries when all books can be ordered from Amazon.com?
- … your question???
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