Stephanie Simoes
@critikids
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Founder of Critikid, a critical thinking site for kids. Science teacher and educational video creator.
Joined September 2023
6. Is it ever okay to believe something without evidence? If so, when? 7. Is allowing harm you could have prevented just as bad as directly causing harm? 8. If you found out the world was a convincing simulation, would it matter?
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3. Can you be morally responsible for something you did by accident? 4. If our choices are fully shaped by our genes and environment, can we still say that we have free will? 5. How would you describe the experience of colour to someone who had only seen in black and white?
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8 philosophical conversation-starters (or journaling prompts) for teens: 1. Can two people look at the same evidence carefully and still both be reasonable while disagreeing? 2. If you knew you wouldn’t be judged or get in trouble, would you live differently? If so, how?
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10. Keep sending out a newsletter every Friday. You can sign up to receive it here:
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Sign up for Critikid's newsletter for a behind-the-scenes look at how I'm working to make critical thinking engaging for the next generation.
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9. Keep posting critical thinking content for all ages on social media. Here are all my accounts:
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Critical thinking content for kids and teens on my website and for all ages on social media.
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8. Hopefully start Fallacy Detectors Part 2! I'm still fundraising for it.
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7. Add more worksheets. I need help with this. If you know people who both know about kids' education and critical thinking who I could hire for freelancing (or who have already made these and might sell them for non-exclusive usage), please let me know. https://t.co/440Z7daH7q
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Critical thinking worksheets and lesson plans for grades 2 to 12. Teach your kids about logical fallacies, data analysis, symbolic logic, and more.
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6. Make worksheets and lesson plans to accompany A Statistical Odyssey, Critikid's data analysis course for ages 12+.
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An interactive space adventure teaching kids ages 12 and up about common errors in data analysis.
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5. Make a printable version of my Data Analysis Handbook (for teens and adults). https://t.co/b0yD0Vy5ud
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A guide to common errors in data analysis like selection bias, the clustering illusion, survivorship bias, and the base rate fallacy.
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4. Add more critical thinking activities for teens to this blog post. I'm happy to receive suggestions! The activities should require little to no preparation or materials. https://t.co/VL3ss7PWxn
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Critical thinking activities for teenagers that can be used at home or in the classroom with little to no prep or materials.
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3. Update my Teachers Pay Teachers shop. The resources are all available on Critikid, too, but I think for some teachers it's more convenient to purchase through TPT. https://t.co/zdU0i4oDHe
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2. Finish writing A Modern Guide to "Thinking, Fast and Slow". https://t.co/JYQ3ppVV0G
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A chapter-by-chapter analysis of Kahneman's text with a focus on the replication crisis, clarifying which findings remain solid and which have not held up to scrutiny.
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1. Add 15 new puzzle cards and make a printable version. https://t.co/Z2ihIKhoJ5
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Challenging critical thinking and logical reasoning puzzles for kids and adults.
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I'm hoping to make Fallacy Detectors Part 2 before the end of this year, but it's expensive because I need to hire an animator. I'm running a @kofi_button campaign to help fund it, but I'm only 17% of the way there. Please contribute if you can:
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Read about 19 other logical (informal) fallacies:
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A guide to common logical fallacies like circular reasoning, false dilemma, appeal to nature, hasty generalization, and the sunk cost fallacy.
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People often say someone made a bad call solely because things turned out poorly. Instead, we should ask: "Did they act rationally with the limited information they had?" 3/
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"They should've seen it coming." The historian's fallacy confuses hindsight with what was knowable then. It stems from hindsight bias: after we learn an outcome, it feels like it was predictable all along. 2/
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A common logical fallacy you almost never hear about is the historian's fallacy. You commit the historian's fallacy when you judge a past decision as obviously obviously wrong using information that wasn't available at the time. 1/
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Since I've been talking about the problematic vagueness of the Monty Hall problem, here's my attempt to pose the puzzle it in a clearer way.
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