Stephanie Simoes

Got a new Fallacy Detectors review this morning ☺️
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My tap water had a weird taste and the water company site was down, so I posted on my local Facebook group to ask if anyone had heard any news about it. Nobody answered the question but people did start arguing that fluoride is bad for you and I feel like this sums up social media perfectly.

8 Ways We Can Fool Ourselves with Data (2/2)
Teach your kids (ages 12+) about these topics through an interactive adventure: critikid.com/courses/stat...

8 Ways We Can Fool Ourselves with Data (1/2)

Attention teachers! Kialo.edu is a free tool for thoughtful classroom discussion. It creates an interactive discussion map that helps students understand how different ideas link together. It's funded by a philanthropic foundation, so it's ad-free and they don't sell user data.
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SPOT-THE-TRUTH-CHALLENGE - Media Masters Rock! Media Masters Rock! is an educational initiative for Alabama K–8 students and teachers, providing free digital citizenship and media literacy lessons that meet Alabama standards.

This is a cool opportunity for people in Alabama with K-8 kids! The "Spot the Truth Challenge" invites students to create short videos showing how they spot truth vs. misinformation online. There are prizes! Enter here: www.mediamastersrock.com/spot-the-tru...

This is so interesting! I don't really get how it works though!

Did you know Critikid sells a range of critical thinking worksheets? critikid.com/worksheets

False Positive Paradox - Critikid When the prevalence of a disease is low, widespread testing of asymptomatic people leads to a high numbers of false positives.

Imagine there is a virus that is always asymptomatic in males. 1% of males are infected with it.

There’s a test that never produces false negatives, but it has a 5% false positive rate.

Phil takes the test. It comes back positive. What are the chances he is infected?
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I saw a post just like this today. I'd never heard of the tool before. The people behind it are probably delighted by the free advertising. In fact, I suspect they deliberately marketed their product in a weird, outrage-bait way so this would happen.

Flip Until Heads Puzzle - Critical Thinking Brainteaser - Critikid Every day you flip a fair coin until you get heads, then stop. What’s the long-run average number of flips you make per day?

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They could definitely have a lot, but I don't see how they could account for *that* many links.

Can someone who understands SEO please explain why Critikid has 20K backlinks when there are only 77 linking websites? Are they harmful to SEO? If so, is there something that can be done to get rid of them?

Have friends or family with very different political views? Try this: swap phones and scroll each other's feeds. It's a quick way to see how differently the same world can be presented.

We are more likely to share things if they spark outrage in us. This can increase the chance of us accidentally sharing misinformation, AI-generated videos, etc. A healthy online habit is to notice when a post triggers anger and take it as a sign to stop and verify before sharing.

Since this is a critical thinking page, some people might be thinking "Is she only sharing the positive reviews? 🤔" Healthy skepticism is welcome here! That's why the first lesson of every course is free. Your kids can try them out and decide for themselves. critikid.com/courses

To sign up, scroll down to the bottom to this part.

Fallacy Detectors Part 2 is in progress! It will teach kids about 10 new fallacies through an animated sci-fi adventure. Want me to email you when it's ready? Sign up here: critikid.com/courses/fall...

Nirvana fallacy - Critikid A consise explanation of the nirvana fallacy with examples and nuance.

Been seeing a lot of this one lately.
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Thank you. I think you're right. The spotting approach is possibly harmful if it gives people a false sense of being able to tell.

One idea I have is to focus on how our confirmation bias may impact how willing we are to believe a video vs. AI (if it's something that may affirm/challenge our beliefs), but it still doesn't really get to the root of the issue. I'm genuinely at a loss. /3

I think we've reached the point where the best videos are indistinguishable. If not, we will be there any day now. And it's now so hard to tell that people are starting to assume videos that are not AI are AI. /2

One of the things I teach kids as part of Critikid is media literacy, but I'm really not sure how to approach the topic of AI videos anymore. The technology gets better every day, and whatever AI spotting techniques people teach quickly become irrelevant. /1

Fallacy Detectors - Critikid A self-paced, interactive, video-based course teaching kids ages 8 to 12 how to spot and respond to logical fallacies.

Another way to support the project is by buying Fallacy Detectors Part 1 or sharing it with people you know who may be interested: critikid.com/courses/fall...

Thanks to everyone who has been supportive of mission to teach kids critical thinking!

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I'll be working with the same animator who did Part 1. I'm running a campaign to help cover the cost of her work. To support the campaign, visit my Ko-Fi page: ko-fi.com/critikid

It's finally happening! I am writing the script for Fallacy Detectors Part 2. Can you guess which fallacy is being taught in this episode?

Milo’s Mind: Beliefs and Rationality Unite - Critikid Milo’s mind is full of BELIEFS—but not all of them are true. Luckily, he has a helpful guide: RATIONALITY, a detective who helps him ask questions and search for evidence. In this picture book for kid...

Link to book: critikid.com/milos-mind-r...

I just noticed this Amazon review of Milo's Mind, my critical thinking book for children!

Thank you to everyone who has left reviews - they help a lot.

Woke up to this review of Fallacy Detectors in my email :)

Your kids can try the first lesson (circular reasoning) for free: critikid.com/courses/fall...

A Modern Guide to Thinking, Fast and Slow - Critikid A chapter-by-chapter analysis of Kahneman's text with a focus on the replication crisis, clarifying which findings remain solid and which have not held up to scrutiny.

But it's impractical for most readers to cross-check every citation as they go. That's why I wrote "A Modern Guide to 'Thinking, Fast and Slow.'" It's a chapter-by-chapter companion that examines the robustness of the research cited in the book. Read for free: critikid.com/a-modern-gui...