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A few resources for Digital Literacy: From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675139#35676503 : > Media Literacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy#Media_literacy_... Internet safety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_safety Trust & Safety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_safety Project Interland game: https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland/ Be Internet Awesome Digital Citizenship Safety Family Guide [PDF]: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-interland.appspot.com/en... AAP HealthyChildren.org > Family Media Plan: https://www.healthychildren.org/English/fmp/Pages/MediaPlan.... Journalism > Ethics and Standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism#Ethics_and_standard... "The New York Times course to teach its reporters data skills is now open-source" (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20173228 DDJ: Data-Driven Journalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven_journalism Data Science; as an interdisciplinary major or minor: There are very few ways to do actual causal analysis given only observational data. It is inappropriate to make statements about causal relations given only observational data without causal analysis. Typical statistical mistakes in media; e.g. from new articles from this month. Misuse of Statistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_statistics From "Environment shapes emotional cognitive abilities more than genes" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40110151 : > From "The World Needs Computational Social Science" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37746921 : >> "Answering causal questions using observational data" (2021) [PDF] https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2021/10/advanced-economic... .. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2021/pop... Causal analysis; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_analysis Causal inference > Malpractice in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_inference#Malpractice_i... Spurious relationship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_relationship "Spurious Correlations": https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations : What is the statistical correlation (Pearson R-value) between Per capita consumption of cheese and _________ ? Is that a causal relationship? Could it be? "Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science" https://inferentialthinking.com/; was originally developed for the course "Data 8: Foundations of Data Science" as a Jupyter Book (a book built from Jupyter Notebooks and Markdown documents and a _toc.yml). An exercise adapted from College English Composition I/II: Underline each premise, Underline Facts and opinions/preferences/biases differently, Identify sources/citations/footnotes and credibility of each, Assess the logical form of the argument/claim. Find multiple contradictory viewpoints. Meta-analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis Fact checking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact-checking Thing > CreativeWork > Review > ClaimReview: https://schema.org/ClaimReview AAP > Healthy Digital Habits resources: https://www.aap.org/en/news-room/campaigns-and-toolkits/heal... | ||