{"id":23601,"date":"2019-06-20T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T05:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23601"},"modified":"2019-06-20T15:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T05:01:30","slug":"act-college-kids-cant-discern-between-fact-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23601","title":{"rendered":"ACT: College Kids Can\u2019t Discern Between Fact &#038; Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"583\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Confused_Student.png\" alt=\"Confused Student\" class=\"wp-image-23602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Confused_Student.png 798w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Confused_Student-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Confused_Student-768x561.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Read this a while ago and it blew me away. 80% of people do not distinguish between fact and opinion. You can state an opinion to 4 out of 5 people and they will take it as fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holy cake crumbs Batman, we are in deep sewage!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/blog\/act-college-kids-cant-discern-between-fact-opinion\">https:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/blog\/act-college-kids-cant-discern-between-fact-opinion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this a while ago and it blew me away. 80% of people do not distinguish between fact and opinion. You can state an opinion to 4 out of 5 people and they will take it as fact. Holy cake crumbs Batman, we are in deep sewage! https:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/blog\/act-college-kids-cant-discern-between-fact-opinion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23603,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23601\/revisions\/23603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}