The Mandela Effect Asma Summary

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The mind is a terrible thing to trick
There needs to be relevant benefit to most information to be worthy of taking the time to get the facts right, because misinformation is likely to take hold when you are thinking of something else Your sense of morality, even in the face of being wrong, becomes the real topic even if it isn’t very important to you. The rejection of information almost always is due to a lack of a cognitive effort by people in general. Cognitive behavioral therapy is the main treatment to fix this but there is so much fake information out there it may be impossible for everyone to get the right help. There needs to be some required cognitive testing from early education to college, making this available may help to offer …show more content…

In the article “Reason and Reality in an Era of Conspiracy” written by Stephen Asma he states that there is too little information sometimes on certain subjects, what then happens is people add to a story in an effort to make it more interesting. However, the worst of the offenders seem to be the “millennial generation” because they hate to be deemed as wrong. They just don’t ever think they have to be. The ideal way to assess this problem would be to require some sort of logic test or class for all students when they enter colleges. These courses need to be given by people that are trained in logical thought (Asma “Reason and Reality”). Conspiracy theories mainly start with the information the public hears or sees through sources like newspapers, television and the internet, however, is not solely there responsibility to stop …show more content…

One cure that can be administered by teachers is too simple to provide more information on the subject at hand. Another cure may be to add more sources, therefore, reducing the psychological malfunctions that filters out much of the information by source instead of by integrity (NPR “Fake or Real”). Eli Pariser describes this best “filter bubbles”, in this Ted Talk and states that “lives are being insulated from an opposing viewpoint” that shelter us from alternative opinions. He explains. “Some of these problems that our fellow citizens are having kind of disappear from view without our really even realizing”. The invention of fake news has exposed a much deeper problem that he called a “crisis of authority” (Pariser). When people’s belief systems are hindered in a way that secludes information, as in places such as North Korea, they become hard to correct. Having no alternatives. Most will follow what is being said as truth. Also being stuck in the “information bubbles” online many will not see the true information needed to form an accurate argument (NPR “Fake or Real”). From stories of bad sources and fake news to conspiracies and psychological retraining nothing seems to be worse than just outright deception. This is explained by author Eli Pariser and he lends even more insight to this problem in the Ted Talk, “filter bubbles”, in this

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