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by MildlySerious 1073 days ago
The skill to filter out a lot of bullshit at a glance. What I mean by that is seeing or clicking on a link, news source, article, video, etc. and immediately having a strong hunch on how skeptical I should be towards it. I'm not a trained scientist or journalist or anything of that sort, but being chronically online, having spent too much time during my teens on sketchy image boards, and sifting through lots of material to find what I need to get stuff done coding have helped my ability to filter. That has always been pretty useful, I hope it stays that way for a bit longer.
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I would expand that to the general ability to parse bs. Just understanding the different incentives of each actor, why a certain agenda by an individual/brand/group is being pushed, etc.