Eating Only Dessert: Why Your Information Diet Is Probably Terrible [Feature]

“How many people here know what the resolution is on the new Macbook Pro?”

Clay Johnson asked that question earlier this year while speaking to a class in Washington, DC. Eighty percent of the class knew the answer (it’s 2880×1800).

Johnson asked another question. “What is the child poverty rate here in DC?”

Not one student knew the [...]

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