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Do you know of any "one a day" critical thinking apps or websites with which you can practice a brief and daily critical thinking exercise? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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By critical thinking, I suppose I mean more along the lines of evaluate this text or claim or media

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, it is called any decent critically acclaimed video game.

Don't listen to non-sense about games designed by "experts" to be tuned to make you smarter... it is a bunch of variously smarmy or disengenous people who really do a massive intellectual injustice to the actual experts at interactive media design... video game designers... ALSO modern board game designers.

Modern society is so sick that we would rather listen to tech bro scammers apply pseudo science over artists who don't bullshit about knowing precisely why something stimulates your mind scientifically and get to the actual hard work of making virtual experiences challenging and meaningful.

Seriously, I find this cottage industry of "brain games" VERY insulting to the decades long movement of video game design.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm not so much looking for "brain games" as something that facillitates practicing crit thinking in terms of recognizing and evaluating claims and detecting biases and rhetoric etc. Maybe media crit a bit also, like "what are the claims being made and argue against them or what is a counterargument" etc

I wonder if that law school entrance exam prep thingy would be helpful...

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Read good fiction or literature, those are the bread and butter processes of critically reading truly good fiction that doesn't hamfistedly oversimplify the human condition.

Here are some recommendations:

To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

I am not talking about scifi that is more interested in the technical details of space war than giving characters depth, though there is plenty of amazing scifi of course!

[–] kobra@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This sounds more like a fact checker than brain games.