6.7: Chapter Exercises
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Chapter Exercises
- The only way to get better at evaluating information online is to develop good habits. Try to find the answers to each of the following questions online and explain in a sentence or two how you found the answer, and how you decided your source was credible.
- Who is the highest paid player in the National Football League? How much did they make last year?
- What is the best recipe for chocolate chip cookies?
- Where is Kosavo?
- How many gun deaths have there been this year in the US?
- What is the graduation rate for your college?
- What is the weather going to be like tomorrow?
- What restaurant has the best Thai food in Tampa?
- What are the symptoms of breast cancer?
- How many people in the United States are attacked by sharks each year? How many are killed by sharks?
- Who played Michael Myers in the original Halloween?
- Use Snopes and Politifact to investigate the following claims. For each, say if they are true, false, or partially true, and explain why.
- The moon landing was faked.
- Beyoncé is really an Italian woman.
- There are only 18 minutes of action in a baseball game.
- President Obama is secretly a Muslim.
- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was once drunk on the House floor.
- A baby was born holding an IUD.
- We only use 10% of our brains.
- A shark was photographed swimming down the street in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Irene.