Pleasant Falsehood

Elizabeth Kolbert shares research that people are more concerned about agreeing with their group than believing accurate facts .

-DD

Alternate Narratives Compel Decisions

Rob Jenkins describes how it is important for faculty to teach students to use facts to bolster an arguement.

-DD

"Huntsman, What Quarry?" (Facts and Wisdom)

Joseph McDonald, Library Director at Bethel College, recently shared this quotation on evaluating facts with the ACL mailing list:

Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts…they lie unquestioned, uncombined.
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
Is daily spun; but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric….
        Edna St. Vincent Millay, Huntsman, What Quarry? Sonnet X

-D.D.