on moving ahead
Well- In response to your question about is there anything we have learned in this class that would help us make an informed decision in this upcoming election. (Not inlcuding years of graduate economics). Well, it may be easier to answer what not to do. Do not look for a set of ideals we affirm and use our educational resources to self-rationalize the validity of such an action. Do not look to commercial media outlets for information. (Maybe mpr is okay). Do take into account the bias that may be a part of your news sources. Do refer to the criteria of adequacy whenever someone makes a claim. Do remember that the best offense is a good defense- when avoiding bad information. Do take into consideration what paradigm we are a part of and account for our economic normal science accordingly. (Beware of those who do not suppport this current best way of describing our state of economics.) Help anyone....
Nice response Kara~ I agree with you about not looking for a set of ideals we affirm and how we should not look to our media sources. Last semester I was fortunate enough to take a world politics class and it surely opened my eyes with regard to information the west receives from media outlets. I have come to realize people in our country live within a type of biased-media bubble where our views of the world and our way of living life is the best. This class has taught me that in order to receive any type of knowledge it cannot be obtained by the media but rather obtained by historians, professors, textbook material, and those who specialize in the information in which one is seeking. I have come to learn how not to believe in fallacies but to see the logic within the arguments or if what is being said is even worthy of being called an argument. I have also come to learn we in the west feel science should be in first place in the race to obtain objective knowledge. Criteria of adequacy should be used often