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Tom Acquin's avatar

Sorry Emily the party. But I just wanted to make this point. Even if it's true that 25% of her students thought that most of America make more money than they do, colleges where you can be really stupid especially when it comes to facts. Even though I'm not using my economics degree per se, the one thing that I can honestly say I learned at college was how to live on my own and function in the world. That's what you're supposed to learn at college. And I would hope that people who graduate college are more intelligent than the people who are attending college.

I know that's often not true, but one can dream.

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Toby Harnden's avatar

This is excellent. Far from missing something, you are absolutely into something. This is the reason why I am (nearly) off Twitter and why I no longer watch or even subscribe to cable TV. I grew up on “too good to check” (which I always thought was a British journalism phrase!) and you are correct that social media and the synthetic outrage it engenders is enticing us all into opting out of probing things if they already satisfy our prejudices. What results is a real problem - a kind of societal lack of intellectual rigor and erosion of fairness in our thinking.

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