Welcome to our weekly media literacy quiz. This quiz will test your knowledge of the past week’s events with a focus on facts, misinformation, bias, and general media literacy. Please share and compare your results.
Media Literacy = the ability to critically analyze stories presented in the mass media and to determine their accuracy or credibility.
Media Literacy Quiz for Week of July 1
Test your knowledge with 7 questions about current events, media bias, fact checks, and misinformation.
Rules: No Googling! Use reasoning and logic if you don't know.
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I believe Question 3 has two correct answers.
Spoiler:
If you are gathering evidence to support a hypothesis, you are ignoring evidence against it. That is bias, at least in my book.
Seven out of seven correct.
I can understand Jeremy’s viewpoint. I also considered that reasoning, as “support” sounded a bit like confirmation bias in action. While a good scientist isn’t necessarily ignoring evidence against a hypothesis even while looking for evidence to support it, substituting the phrase “support or disprove,” or the word “test,” might have been a better way to say it. But when I saw the other answer, knowing only one could be chosen, I knew that was the better one.
I’d like to add that this happened to me once or twice before, in previous quizzes. Because of the usual behavior of check-boxes, I checked one with the intention of also checking another, but the quiz moved on to the next question as soon as I chose the first. That’s when I learned only one answer was possible.
It might be better to use “radio buttons” for the quiz since they typically designate only one possible answer.