📖Read

You and your partner will read four different sources on an incident involving the spread of false statistics.  These include a newspaper article, a survey, a journal article and tweets. Each pair will answer the question on their sheet . Be prepared to share your response with the class. 

Question 1:  According to these sources, who is responsible for the inaccurate information? Cite evidence.

Question 2: How did your understanding of the facts change as you read different accounts of this story in different media forms? 

Question 3: Who might benefit from this message and who might be harmed by it? 

Question 4: How might the false reporting of this statistic impact the primary concern to stop harassment on campus?

Question 5: How do you decide what is credible when you see a tweet, read a news story or study a research report? How did you decide whether these particular sources were credible?