WHAT SHOULD WE BE CAREFUL OF WHEN DESIGNING LEARNING OR RECOGNITION TASKS IN THE RESEARCH OF FALLACIOUS REASONING? FINDINGS FROM A PILOT STUDY

Social media and cognitive fallacies feed the spread of fallacious reasoning. Challenges of the current world such as information manipulation increase the need to evaluate reasoning. Which leads consequently to better judgments and decision making. Critical thinking is perceived as one of the key s...

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Main Authors: Vrbova, Lucie, Jirinova, Katerina, Bacova, Katerina, Lorencova, Hana
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Attention task
Bias
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Critical thinking
Decision making
Digital media
Economic summit conferences
Educational psychology
Experimental psychology
Experiments
False information
Information warfare
Judgments
Learning
Obesity
Pilot projects
Reasoning
Recognition
Social networks
Students
Studies
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Summary:Social media and cognitive fallacies feed the spread of fallacious reasoning. Challenges of the current world such as information manipulation increase the need to evaluate reasoning. Which leads consequently to better judgments and decision making. Critical thinking is perceived as one of the key skills for the future. For the research of fallacious reasoning, it is important to be able to measure the ability to recognize fallacious reasoning and also to educate participants in it. In the paper, we present findings from a pilot study of recognition and learning tasks. The main findings were the wording of instruction affecting the results; balanced correct and incorrect answers to avoid ceiling and floor effect; the necessity to remind the instruction to prevent it being replaced for an easier question; entertaining design of learning task enhancing the attention paid to the experiment. These findings should be considered when designing the experiment focusing on fallacious reasoning to avoid biased data.
ISSN:1849-6903
1849-6903