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A Newsfeed Overload

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Published: February 21, 2021 by VPR Producer

How often do you skim a headline and feel like that’s all you need to know? Or gather your daily news from a Twitter or Facebook feed? Economist & journalist Tim Harford joins Viewpoints this week to share the impacts of sensationalized or one-sided information and how we can all become more inquisitive consumers of content.


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  • Tim Harford, economist, journalist, author of The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics.

Links for more info:

  • Science Magazine: How to (seriously) read a scientific paper
  • Financial Times: Tim Harford
Program #: 21-08segment type: Feature StoriesTopics - Advertising/Marketing and Consumerism| Economics and Finance| Facebook| Math, Data and Statistics| News and Journalism| Research| Social Media and Internet| TwitterGuests - Tim HarfordBooks & Publications - Financial Times| The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statisticstagged with - author| economist| Jason Dickey| journalist| Marty Peterson
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