Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Reading critically

The effing.librarian provides an entertaining example of informacy at work as he criticises an article's absurd predictions of 100% of the world's population authoring (via Twitter!) & thus presumably wiping out illiteracy by 2013.  I note that the article he criticises is by a couple of professors, but after his analysis of their study I have to wonder at the quality of the journal.

Go see how he picks apart the premises and arguments - or just enjoy his ire - in:

The Analysis of Bullshit.

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