PODCAST EPISODE 256 – Seeing Through Media Falsehoods

ByPaul Adams

WHAT WAS COVERED

      • 00:00 – Episode begins Paul welcomes listeners
      • 01:55 – Episode topic: Epistemology of certain words and phrases; a game based on a TikTok video.
      • 06:00 – Task 1: “Break a Leg”.
      • 8:20 – Task 2: Why a TV show pilot is called a pilot.
      • 9:35 – Task 3: “This little piggy went to market”.
      • 11:25 – Task 4: “Pinterest means pin your interest”.
      • 12:50 – Task 5: “Hold your horses”.
      • 14:00 – Task 6: “Sand is called sand because it’s in between the sea and land”.
      • 14:50 – Task 7: “The division symbol is just a numerator and denominator but replaced with the dots”
      • 17:15 – The danger of fake facts that stick only because of the way they are delivered.
      • 18:50 – We use that same internet to do the checking of the other internet thing.
      • 21:12 – Next week’s topic, closing the episode.

[Tweet “So many pieces of news can masquerade as facts that we don’t know, and we have to pay really careful attention. #YourBusinessYourWealth”]

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[Tweet “One of the cognitive biases is that if something rhymes we automatically feel like it has more authority. #YourBusinessYourWealth”]

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