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think, however, the Internet is not the primary cause of challenges to their expertise. Rather, the Internet has accelerated the collapse of communication between experts and laypeople by offering an apparent shortcut to erudition. It allows people to mimic intellectual accomplishment by indulging in an illusion of expertise provided by a limitless supply of facts.
The Death of Expertise
Tom Nichols
In that case incumbent politicians may face a dilemma: should they implement the policies voters want or the policies that will turn out to contribute to voters’ welfare?
Democracy for Realists
Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels
Meyer pointed out that a typical lesson on the problem of “How long will it take to fill a water tank?” provides far too many tips and hints along the way. Meyer decided to “eliminate all the substeps given to kids, so they have to figure it out. Instead of telling them what matters, they need to decide what matters.” At first, Meyer began to strip a lot of the text out of his teaching materials, giving kids less, so they would have to ask and think more. Then he came up with an even better idea: He showed his class a video of a water tank filling up . . . “agonizingly slowly,” he says. Students began to “look at their watches, rolling their eyes. And they’re all wondering, at some point, ‘Man, how long is it gonna take to fill up?’ That’s how you know you’ve baited the hook.”
A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger
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