What skill do you believe everyone should possess? - eviltoast
  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    A really good bullshit-o-meter.

    So many issues with major media, corporate announcements, government announcements, and probably many other things can be solved with a good bullshit-o-meter.

    What I really mean is critical thinking. Because there are vacuous ways to calibrate a bullshit-o-meter that lack logic entirely and tie one into some ideological goal. Then you can still claim to have a bullshit-o-meter but lack the ultimate goal of it, but it’s really not a helpful tool at that point. My original meaning is a true, logic-based bullshit-o-meter.