The course materials will focus on teaching students how to analyze and evaluate conspiracy theories using critical thinking skills. The class would cover topics such as identifying and analyzing evidence, evaluating arguments, and determining the credibility of sources. Students would learn how to...
apophenia
are secret shadowy groups that are
manipulating 2
controlling .
type 1 error
events for malicious purposes .
.
type 2 error
Tuskegee syphilis experiment MK ULTRA social
^
heider simmel illusion
→ ex :
-
, ,
dataveillance narrativity
media experimentation
.
2 .
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Characteristics : by Van Prooijen 2 van
Vugt .
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Always involve patterns
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Always have a deliberate agency behind
•
Always involve a
group of ppl .
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Always threat : r n
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a - - -
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€ • •
f-
Always secret +
°
.
/ sea .
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Conspi racism the belief that all parts of the society are a result of conspiratorial manipulation
•
: .
ex :
Reptilians ,
free Masons ,
Illuminati ( meta -
conspiracy )
→
crucial to test truth or false
" "
•
The Paranoid Spokesman by Hofstadter i
" "
→
super -
spreaders
-
promote Manichean ( existence is between forces of absolute good + evil )
2 Millennialist worldview ( evils are out completely )
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Pattern i city I Apophenia :
-
we are constantly surrounded by into 2 need to decide if there is a pattern in the
into or it 's just random background noise
•
Errors :
type 1 error : think that there is pattern , just noise
→
false positive conclusion . → rather mistaking this
type 2 error : we think they're just noise , actually pattern .
→
false negative conclusion .
, •
Heider -
Simmel illusion : refers to our ability to create a coherent story out
of
randomness ( ex anthropomorphize
: animals or
supernature events i storms →
god is mad)
↳ .
Offshoot of type 1 error .
→ wanna see intention 2
agency behind .
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-
CHAPTER 3 : Social dimension of thoughts
As human ,
we are impacted by other people easily ( ideas , opinions feelings )
, . ..
→ which
affected our
understanding to world 2
reality .
→ examine in what ways others shape our reality ,
( → associated to the formation of wnsp ) .
The
Evolutionary Argument
•
:
-
We need others to support 2 maintaince our life ( hunting ,
child rearing ,
clothes making , building , .. )
Social form of communication that is
signaling a action performer 's
°
:
, , awareness
carried out in the presence of another person I wonder abt the safety of our env .
ex :
My friend sense the danger and signal me to be silent 2 watch out .
°
Social conformity : the process where people change their beliefs ,
perceptions attitudes more matched with the
groups
→
, .
Solomon Asch experiment proves that 's idea is by fit in
easily influenced crowds
→ →
one .
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Mass Panic : occur when a group of people are spooked by a real or imagined danger
" "
danger from sharks
everyone panicked Lex outside
→
.
: comes , ,
CNE 2016 ( Youth Day ) Was forced to shut down early for safety cancers (from mass panics Ofc )
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Mass → Moral Panic : what we all are afraid of .
" " " "
-
mass panic : the world i moral panic is each other .
social
moral panic : concern that there are sub groups undermining society
- -
.
↳ condition individual or a minor is defined as threat to social
a
, group
"
British juvenile
"
scare
ex : The
Teddy Boys scapegoats :
delinquency groups that had
-
ex : Mods and Rockers are also British subcultures in 1950 -
1960 that appeared to hate
each other , both were perceived as violent troublemakers .( Modernist -
jazz i Rockers >
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