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Politics: checking a claim, including your own

How to check a claim, spot a tortured statistic, and notice when you are being farmed.

Topic
Civic
Days
7
Per day
35 min
Access
free
A five-step chain from primary data to a social post, with what is lost at each step and a declining fidelity meter.

How to find a primary source, spot a tortured statistic, apply base rates to news, notice when you are being farmed for outrage, and work out what you actually want from a policy.

  1. Finding the thing itself40 min
  2. How a number gets tortured30 min
  3. Base rates and the news30 min
  4. Being farmed for outrage30 min
  5. What you want, separately from who proposed it40 min
  6. Disagreeing with someone you like25 min
  7. Keeping the record, and being wrong on purpose35 min